Connecting the Dots: Climate, Oceans and Extreme Events
This week devastating flash flooding hit the Nepal-China border, resulting in hundreds missing and many feared dead. This year alone we've already recorded a number of tragic disasters across the planet - heat waves and cyclones, floods and droughts. Some of them could tie to increasingly turbulent weather patterns as the climate changes. But how do we make sense of the link between seismic activity, ocean currents and rising temperatures. Earth Sciences New Zealand principal scientist Graham Leonard joins us to explain what happened in Nepal and shed a bit of light on broader global…
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