Climate Change & Extreme Weather with Daniel Swain

In this Climate Chat episode, we will discuss the link between climate change and extreme weather including hurricanes, droughts and floods with UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain. Daniel also hosts the Weather West blog. Dr. Daniel Swain is a climate scientist in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles, and holds concurrent appointments as a Research Fellow in the Capacity Center for Climate and Weather Extremes at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Daniel studies the changing character, causes, and impacts of extreme weather and climate events on a warming planet–with a particular focus on the physical processes leading to droughts, floods, and wildfires. He holds a PhD in Earth System Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of California, Davis. Daniel’s Weather West blog: https://weatherwest.com Daniel’s UCLA web page: https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/person/daniel-swain/ Follow Daniel Swain on X/Twitter: @Weather_West Follow Daniel Swain on Vluesky: @weatherwest.bsky.social ---------------- Follow Dan Miller on X/Twitter: @danmiller999 Follow Dan Miller on Bluesky: @danmiller999.bsky.social and @climatechat.bsky.social To join the Zoom discussion, visit Dan's Clubhouse room. The Clubhouse link is provided in Dan's Twitter feed. You can also leave a question in the YouTube Live chat. Please begin your question with "Question:" to make it easy for our mods to spot it. For more Climate Chat episodes, see our YouTube home page: https://www.youtube.com/@climatechat For recent YouTube Live programs: https://www.youtube.com/@climatechat/streams