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New methods are helping scientists link extreme weather events to climate change

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with meteorologist and University of Georgia professor Dr. Marshall Shepherd about how scientists are able to connect extreme weather events like heatwaves, droughts and hurricanes to climate change with greater certainty, but less so with tornadoes.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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