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President Joe Biden has said that Hurricane Ian – and other extreme events like wildfires and droughts – has ended the discussion “about whether or not there’s climate change and we should do something about it”. The president made the remarks after travelling to Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday with …

Katharine Hayhoe, former lead author for the U.S. National Climate Assessment, talks with Alex Wagner about where experts can see the role of climate change in strength, rate of intensification, rain totals, and speed of hurricanes like Hurrican Ian. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc Follow the MSNBC Midterms Elections guide …

Gaia Vince is a science and environment journalist and author who has written extensively about the impact of human activity on our planet and climate. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe) In this episode, she joins Krishnan to talk about her new book, Nomad Century, in which she takes a look at how migration …

Hurricane expert Suzana J. Camargo, a professor at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, explains how climate change causes more powerful storms and why we can expect more monsters like Hurricane Ian as oceans continue to warm. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc Follow the MSNBC Midterms Elections guide to the important …

Authorities say hundreds may be dead after Hurricane Ian made landfall Wednesday along Florida’s southwestern coast as a powerful Category 4 storm, one of the strongest hurricanes ever to hit the continental United States. We get an update from Tampa and look at links between the climate crisis, rising sea …

Improve your English vocabulary and speaking with this ‘Climate change’ 6 Minute English compilation from BBC Learning English! 30 minutes of listening practice to help improve your English listening and learn LOTS of new vocabulary! Chapters: 00:00 Is the planet warming up faster? 06:05 Smart tech and climate change 12:10 …

A UN spokeswoman has declared the organisation “owns the science” on climate change, says Sky News host Rita Panahi. Ms Panahi discussed the comment from the UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming, which she said was “collusion between big tech and big government to censor dissenting voices”. source

Shifting wind patterns are making extreme weather events more likely. This is because the wind, which distributes areas of high and low pressure along the latitude lines of the Earth, is also being influenced by climate change. The wind is the motor for our weather. It brings us both sunshine …

Climate havens or climate destinations are cities that are situated in places that avoid the worst effects of natural disasters and have the infrastructure to support a larger population. Many of these legacy cities are in the U.S. Northeast. Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/-Vm_gabtIA8 source

Some of the most extreme weather events on record took place in 2022, as climate change-induced wildfires and droughts ravaged parts of Europe, the U.S. and Africa, even as Asia battled disastrous floods and monsoon rains. Experts say this is just the beginning. “What we calculated and what we knew …