Weather forecasters increasingly address climate change

Weather forecasters increasingly address climate change

Even before summer began, there were extreme heat waves and new heat records throughout the Northern Hemisphere, and the forecast calls for a hotter-than-normal summer in much of the U.S. Scientists say climate change is accelerating and intensifying these kinds of heat waves. It’s taken a while for some TV weathermen and women to make these connections, but that’s changing. Miles O’Brien reports.

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