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LIVE on Monday: Climate chaos with Daniel Swain

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Dave Adalian
and
July 29, 2024

Earth’s climate is changing. As it does, extraordinary weather events – storms and floods, wildfires, droughts, heatwaves and deep freezes – are becoming more common and extreme. Climate chaos is mounting.

One striking example reported by NOAA is coastal high-tide flooding. Inundations along the U.S. seacoast have jumped 300% to 900% in the last 50 years. Since 1880, the mean global sea level has risen 8-9 inches (21-24 cm). It will rise another 7.2 feet (2.2 m) by the end of the century and 13 feet (3.9 m) by 2150 if nothing is done.

Daniel Swain – who Stanford Magazine called “the Carl Sagan of weather” – has spent his career studying the connection between global climate change and extreme weather. The self-proclaimed climate communicator will join EarthSky’s Dave Adalian on Monday (July 29, 2024) at 12:15 p.m. CDT (17:15 UTC) for a live chat. He’ll explain how a hotter climate drives harsher weather and what we can do to slow the problem down.

Read more about Daniel Swain

Climate: A young man in a plaid shirt stand in front of foliage. He is smiling.
Daniel Swain is a climate scientist focused on the dynamics and impacts of extreme events – including droughts, floods, storms, and wildfires – on a warming planet. He researches “hydroclimate volatility” and wildfire dynamics at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a research fellow at the Capacity Center for Climate and Weather Extremes at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and at the Nature Conservancy. His recent work identifies climate-related causes for increasingly frequent and severe wildfires and how to mitigate their impact. Used with permission.

Click here – Weather West – to view his YouTube channel.

Bottom line: Climatologist Daniel Swain will discuss climate change and extreme weather LIVE with EarthSky at 12:15 p.m. (17:15 UTC) on Monday, July 29. Join us!

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July 29, 2024
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Dave Adalian

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About the Author:
Award-winning reporter and editor Dave Adalian's fascination with the cosmos began during a long-ago summer school trip. That fieldtrip never ended, and still Dave pursues adventures under the night sky. Dave grew up in California's Tulare County - where the San Joaquin Valley meets the Sierra Nevada - a wilderness larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined. He studied English, American literature and mass communications at the College of the Sequoias and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has worked as a reporter and editor for a variety news publications on- and offline during a career spanning more than 30 years.

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