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Did climate change make recent extreme storms worse?

Nature is taking a devastating toll in both the U.S. mainland and in countries like India.

08/30/2017

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Did climate change make recent extreme storms worse?

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Nature is taking a devastating toll in both the U.S. mainland and in countries like India.

Nature is taking a devastating toll in both the U.S. mainland and in countries like India, Bangladesh and Nepal, where monsoons rains are causing floods and hundreds of casualties. Directly attributing these individual weather events to global warming is a tricky undertaking for scientists. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on what data suggests about the connection.

08/30/2017

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