Hurricanes and Heat Waves: Is This Climate Change?

1) Are Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria as well as recent heat waves and extreme weather events in California the product of climate change?

2) If they are, how should they influence public discussions and teaching of climate change?

Brad Hoge, Ph.D. Ecology and Environmental Biology.  Dr. Hoge is Director of Teacher Support at the National Center for Science Education. Formerly he was at the University of Houston and director of HUNSTEM, the Houston Urban Network for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.

 

HOW: This event is presented by the Bay Area Skeptics.

WHY: Because we’re curious creatures.