How Does Climate Change Affect Individual Extreme Weather Events? (w/ "Angry Weather" author Dr. Friederike Otto)
Episode description
This week, Dr. Friederike Otto, author of Angry Weather, and acting director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford and co-investigator on the international project World Weather Attribution, joins the show to talk about how climate change impacts individual extreme weather events like wildfires, hurricanes, droughts, heatwaves, and more.
Co-hosts Ty Benefiel and Brock Benefiel also discuss the President's ability to ban fracking, the number of fracking jobs in Pennsylvania, and how a clean energy transition can generate a ton of new jobs.
Buy Angry Weather here: https://greystonebooks.com/products/angry-weather
Join our book club and read All We Can Save: https://www.theclimatepod.com/post/join-us-for-the-climate-pod-book-club-all-we-can-save
Further Reading:
Data for Progress Memo: https://www.dataforprogress.org/memos/battlegrounds-gnd
CBS/YouGov Poll:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-leads-wisconsin-pennsylvania-covid-opinion-poll/
Frack Check: Trump Inflates Pennsylvania Fracking Job Numbers by 3500 Percent:
Trump Administration Formally Rolls Back Rule Aimed at Limiting Methane Pollution:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/climate/trump-methane-rollback.html
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