From Snowstorms to Heat Waves, How Global Warming Causes Extreme Weather and Climate Instability 2 | What Causes Global Warming

Posted by global warming on May 5th, 2011 filed in Global Warming

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The East Coast is struggling to recover from the massive blizzard that slammed into hundreds cities and towns from the Carolinas to Maine. The storm was a grimly fitting end to 2010, which was characterized by extreme weather from start to finish with heat waves, floods, volcanoes, blizzards, landslides and droughts. While TV networks closely follow extreme weather events around the world, they rarely make the connection between extreme weather and global warming. We speak with Dr. Paul Epstein of Harvard University’s Center for Health and the Global Environment.