Yes, Climate Change Is Making Severe Weather Worse
Recent disasters show how climate change is making winter storms, flooding rains and summer heat waves more extreme
Jennifer Francis is a senior scientist at the Woods Hole | Research Center in Falmouth, Mass. She was a research professor at Rutgers University from 1994 to 2018. Francis serves on Scientific American's board of advisers. Credit: Nick Higgins
Recent disasters show how climate change is making winter storms, flooding rains and summer heat waves more extreme
Scientists are working out potential linkages between rapid Arctic warming caused by climate change and a more wavy jet stream causing weird winter weather
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