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Video: Climate scientist explains global weather woes
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From Australia to China to Pakistan to Russia and central Europe, this summer has so far been characterized by extreme weather events such as torrential rains, flooding, drought and wildfires.
In the following video report by ITN News, climate scientist Thomas R. Karl explains how the current extreme weather events across the globe are linked and most likely connected to human activity. Karl is the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate Services office in Washington DC.
From an article by the Associated Press:
Russia and central Asia this year happen to be the epicentres of very warm conditions this summer. To accompany those warm conditions, we’re seeing very heavy precipitation in the monsoon areas in Pakistan. These events are not disconnected. The climate system is connected.
–Thomas R. Karl
The ITN video also shows footage of the storms and flooding in China, Pakistan and Australia, as well as the wildfires in Russia.
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Good points, Fredrik.
There is a problem between scientists not being skilled (or professional) communicators and the media not being knowledgable in science (not to mention motivated by ratings, sponsorship and politics). We need quality science journalists and also scientists who are good communicators.
This isn’t really a surprise, even if one always should be careful with saying to much when discussing the climate. As he says in the video the climate is a complex system with a huge amount of factors that contribute. And “global warming” is a misleading term… as said, high heat in one area mean heavy rain in the monsoon areas.
A huge kudos to the scientist, I think things like this video is needed. We need more scientist that don’t just produce more data, but actually explains it to the public. After all, journalists often get it wrong, politicians are (sometimes) not able to take in the full picture and corporations aren’t trusted with this kind of information…
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