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Predicting the effects of climate change… while experiencing them in real time

By AirTalk Staff
Published May 17, 2016
FRAZIER PARK, CA - MAY 7: A ground water level sign emphasizes the urgency of a drought-related water supply emergency in the community of Lake of the Woods in Los Padres National Forest on May 7, 2015 near Frazier Park, California. According to an aerial survey conducted by the U.S. Forest Service in April, about 12 million trees have died in California forestlands in the past year because of extreme drought. The dead trees add to the flammability of a drying landscape that is increasingly threatened by large, intense wildfires. In some areas where extremely hot wildfires have occurred, as in the 437-square mile Cedar fire that burned across San Diego County in 2003, most trees have died and chaparral brush is displacing the forests and animals that rely upon them. The findings of the study were compared to similar surveys taken in July 2014. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
A ground water level sign emphasizes the urgency of a drought-related water supply emergency in the community of Lake of the Woods in Los Padres National Forest near Frazier Park, California.
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Predicting the effects of climate change… while experiencing them in real time

Since the 1970s, climate change has been looked at and talked about as something happening in the future, that our kids will have to deal with.

Well, forty years later those kids are definitely grown and over the weekend NASA released data marking April as the seventh straight month that global temperatures have surpassed previous high records. 2016 is poised to be the hottest our Earth has experienced in a very, very long time and we can already feel it.

Guests:

Jeremy Miller, environmental reporter, most recent is “Droughtlandia” in Pacific Standard 

Gavin Schmidt, climate scientist, director of Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia Univeristy