With: Hanna Sundqvist, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist and Paul Krusic

Weather extremes in recent years, including droughts and downpours, have generally been regarded as emblems of increased anthropogenic climate change. New research published in the journal Nature, however, suggests that great variations in precipitation that eclipse those of the twentieth century have occurred across at least 1200 years, and thus precede the large-scale combustion of fossil fuels. Three of the authors of the new study—Hanna Sundqvist, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist and Paul Krusic—join Think Globally Radio this week to discuss their findings, and the implications for the scientific understanding and modeling of climate change.

The Think Globally Radio episode May 8 2016