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Saturday, July 2, 2011

Kevin Trenberth speaks on extreme weather and climate science (listen to the audio) and will be speaking at the "Earth on the Edge" conference in Melbourne, Australia, July 3, 2011

Friday Panel: extreme weather and climate science

Earth image and star field background NASA/Goddard Space Flight Centre Scientific Visualisation Studio
The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
Laura Rocchio (NASA/GSFC).
Earth image and star field background
One of the world's leading climate scientists, Kevin Trenberth, explains what's causing recent wild weather and why he has no doubt that humans are contributing to the increased incidence and severity of these weather events. He'll be speaking at the Earth on the Edge conference in Melbourne later today which has brought together more than 4,000 earth scientists and experts from more than 100 countries.

Guests

Kevin Trenberth 
Senior scientist and head of the Climate Analysis Section at America's National Centre for Atmospheric Research, speaking with RN Breakfast from Melbourne. 

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