Climate change: Humans caused 9 of 16 recent major weather events, NOAA report shows

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Climate change: Humans caused 9 of 16 recent major weather events, NOAA report shows

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a report Monday about major weather events of the last year, including California's drought. SCPR science reporter Sanden Totten shares more.

FILE - In this May 1, 2014 file photo, fourth-generation rice farmer Josh Sheppard walks across the dried-up ditch at his rice farm in Richvale, Calif. In Santa Cruz, Calif., dozens of residents who violated their strict water rations take a seat at Water School, hoping to get hundreds of thousands of dollars in distressing penalties waived. California is in the third year of the state's worst drought in recent history. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a report Monday about major weather events of the last year, including California's drought. SCPR science reporter Sanden Totten shares more.

Drought in California. Extreme heat in Australia. An unusually cold spring in the U.K.

These were some of the notable weather events of last year.

Monday the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - or NOAA - released a massive report looking at 16 such events.

Nine of them were shown to be linked to human-caused climate change.

To tell more about the report is Southern California Public Radio's Sanden Totten.