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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A major storm is headed toward Northern California, promising to drop up to 10 feet (3 meters) of snow on Sierra Nevada mountain peaks and bring

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A major storm is headed toward Northern California, promising to drop up to 10 feet (3 meters) of snow on Sierra Nevada mountain peaks and bring

Not understand the trend or what is happening over a prolong time, but when you look at the devastating weather events over the past year or so, how much is climate change affecting these weather catastrophes we are seeing play out? >> there are surprises in store when it comes to the impacts of climate change, and one of the surprises were seeing is this very dramatic increase in extreme weather events, the unprecedented heat waves and droughts and wildfires and super floods, that northwest hea...

Climate change is having. you make the planet warmer youre going to get longer and intense heat waves, youre going to evaporate more moisture into the atmosphere so theres more moisture to turn into record rainfall events and flooding epvents. and you take the heat and the summer drought as the warm air bakes the earth, you get these unprecedented droughts like weve seen. thats all pretty easy to explain. but were seeing an increase in the persistence and frequency of these events that cant simp...

20,000 year event. we shouldnt be seeing things like this. accounting for climate, it was a warmup in 1,000 year event. that tells you the models we are using to diagnose the impacts of climate change on this extreme -- these extreme weather events, if anything, are underestimating the impact that climate change is having. some of the ingredients are pretty easy to predict. you make the planet warmer, you are going to get longer and more intense heat waves. you are going to evaporate more moistu...

Denver finally got its first snowfall of the season on Friday, shattering an 87-year-old record for the citys latest first snow.

Denver finally got its first snowfall of the season on Friday, shattering an 87-year-old record for the citys latest first snow.

Through. so you have been a strong advocate for this legislation. why must the climate piece of this bill remain in it? >> well, the build back better, when you combine it with the bipartisan infrastructure law that was passed, is absolutely vital to lowering costs for families, especially the cost of energy, and addressing these climate-fueled disasters. the tornadoes, what scientists tell us is that higher temperatures, more moisture in the atmosphere, create the conditions that make these ext...

Firefighter you would see one once in your career. but that has not been the case anymore. >> thats correct. ive got 22 years of experience in the fire service and the first half of my career you were seeing maybe one of these events, maybe every five to seven years. in 2017 i went on the thomas fire where i thought at the time it was the largest in californias history and i thought that would be the pinnacle of my career. that was quickly elapsed by -- its now the eighth largest fire in califor...

Denver finally saw its first snowfall of the season on Friday, shattering an 87-year-old record for the latest first snow