It feels from the news like climate change is happening faster and faster every year – so are the extremes of 2023 taking us by surprise?
The answer is not… entirely.
Climate is changing pretty much as we expect, but the impacts are a different story.
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Contents
00:00 Intro
00:38 So many extremes
01:52 El Niño
02:56 Hunga Tonga
03:58 Have we tipped?
05:20 Impacts are not equal
06:38 Solutions
07:43 Summary
#ClimateChange #ClimateImpacts #ExtremeWeather
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