Fact check: Extreme weather events are becoming more severe, not less
Extreme weather events have increased in frequency and severity in the last several decades due to climate change, according to experts.
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Extreme weather events have increased in frequency and severity in the last several decades due to climate change, according to experts.
LBNL researchers Michael Wehner and Alan Rhoades worked with Binod Pokharel, a researcher at Utah State University and Tribhuvan University in Nepal, to help link drought and fire in Nepal to climate change, establishing a model for predicting future fires.
The Daily Californian's Environment section
Michael Wehner, a senior scientist in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, discusses how climate change is increasing rainfall and how people can better prepare.
“This is the new normal,” one expert said. “And that should be alarming.”