How Does Climate Change Affect Individual Extreme Weather Events? (w/ "Angry Weather" author Dr. Friederike Otto)

This week, Dr. Friederike Otto, author of Angry Weather, and acting director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford and co-investigator on the international project World Weather Attribution, joins the show to talk about how climate change impacts individual extreme weather events like wildfires, hurricanes, droughts, heatwaves, and more. 

Co-hosts Ty Benefiel and Brock Benefiel also discuss the President's ability to ban fracking, the number of fracking jobs in Pennsylvania, and how a clean energy transition can generate a ton of new jobs.

Buy Angry Weather here: https://greystonebooks.com/products/angry-weather

Join our book club and read All We Can Save: https://www.theclimatepod.com/post/join-us-for-the-climate-pod-book-club-all-we-can-save

Further Reading:

Data for Progress Memo: https://www.dataforprogress.org/memos/battlegrounds-gnd

CBS/YouGov Poll:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-leads-wisconsin-pennsylvania-covid-opinion-poll/

Frack Check: Trump Inflates Pennsylvania Fracking Job Numbers by 3500 Percent:

https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/frack-check-trump-inflates-pennsylvania-fracking-job-figures-by-3500-percent/Content?oid=17937555

Trump Administration Formally Rolls Back Rule Aimed at Limiting Methane Pollution:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/climate/trump-methane-rollback.html

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