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Is the recent severe weather a harbinger for climate change?

Is the recent severe weather across the U.S. a harbinger for climate change?

02/15/2021

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Is the recent severe weather a harbinger for climate change?

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Is the recent severe weather across the U.S. a harbinger for climate change?

The winter of 2021 is writing itself into the record books this week, with large swaths of the nation seeing the coldest weather in memory. But is this a particularly severe phase of winter weather or is there more to it than that? Dev Niyogi, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences and Cockrell School of Engineering, joins Amna Nawaz to discuss.

02/15/2021

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