Exposing Denial

Extreme weather

Keah Schuenemann explains why global warming makes many types of extreme weather more likely. However, it is virtually impossible to say if a specific storm, heat wave, or other event was caused by global warming. Watch the video to learn why.

Source: Denial101x (a MOOC from UQx and edX)

Credit: Extreme weather, originally published in UQx Denial101x Making Sense of Climate Science Denial, 2017 (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

Curated by Lea Rekow for BifrostOnline

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