Climate change speeding up

Current climate change has been well underway for decades, but the rate of that change is now going up so fast that people are noticing things like tornados and extreme heat waves are occurring in places where they have rarely been seen before. Dr. Jennifer Francis, a senior atmospheric scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center, joins Host Steve Curwood to explain how greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, the loss of reflective ice and snow, and other changes are increasingly causing the Earth to retain extra heat energy from the Sun.

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