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Kimberley Miner speaks on national television about climate change impacts on extreme weather in California

Posted by Cora Preston on Thursday, January 26 2023

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Dr. Kimberley Miner

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Energy & Climate Change, Adaptation to climate change, Climate change, California

Kimberly Miner was interviewed by the Daily Show and an NBC News segment about how climate change has fueled recent extreme weather events and flooding in California. “Climate change is warming the whole planet and that includes the atmosphere and the oceans. What that means for us is that the atmosphere is able to hold more moisture, so these storms can be bigger,” Miner told NBC. 

Watch the NBC segment here. 

Original story by the University of Maine. 

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