
Climate change is driving wildfires, tropical storms
Clip: 8/23/2020 | 4m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Climate change is driving wildfires, giving ‘rocket fuel’ to tropical storms
As hundreds of wildfires in California continue to blaze and thousands of people evacuate, this year’s hurricane season is on track to become one of the busiest on record. Andrew Freedman, editor of Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss how climate change is aiding these natural disasters and what can be done about it.
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Climate change is driving wildfires, tropical storms
Clip: 8/23/2020 | 4m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
As hundreds of wildfires in California continue to blaze and thousands of people evacuate, this year’s hurricane season is on track to become one of the busiest on record. Andrew Freedman, editor of Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss how climate change is aiding these natural disasters and what can be done about it.
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