Heavy Weather: Global Warming, Extreme Storms and Wildfires

On today’s edition of Greenpeace Radio, Kert Davies interviews Nick Sundt, climate expert at the World Wildlife Fund.

The two discuss the impact of global warming on the ongoing record wildfire in Colorado and the recent “derecho” thunderstorm event that killed 23 people and knocked out electrical power to millions on June 29th.  Many are still without power a week later with temperatures in Washington DC expected above 100 degrees.

Nick worked for the US Global Change Research Program during the Clinton Administration and was a smoke jumper forest firefighter earlier in his career.

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