If Global Warming Exists, Why is it so Cold Outside?
Guests
David Fenton
Founder, Fenton Communications
Katharine Mach
Associate Professor, Marine Ecosystems and Society, University of Miami
Ann Reid
Executive Director, National Center for Science Education
Ben Santer
Fowler Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Woods Hole; Visiting Researcher, UCLA
Summary
The last five years have been the hottest on record globally. But this past winter, plunging temperatures, snowstorms and torrential rains throughout the country have a lot of people questioning the reality of climate change. If the planet is warming up, why is the Midwest suffering record cold temperatures?
Climate scientists, communicators and educators join us to talk about why, after one of the hottest years on record, the country has suddenly gone into deep freeze. On today’s Climate One: climate science explained, and climate myths debunked.