NBC has been sending a University of Oregon grad to some of the real hotspots around the world. The result was Sunday night’s documentary entitled “Our Year of Extremes: Did Climate Change Just Hit Home?” It was reported by Ann Curry.
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The program documented how the climate is changing – and impacts that are already being felt. It suggested, for example, that increased rainfall – related to climate change – contributed to the Oso landslide north of Seattle.
Scientists introduced a new theory in the documentary: that soot from a growing number of wildfires coats polar ice caps, warming them, and causing them to melt faster.
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