Why Climate Change Makes Extreme Weather Worse

• This video discusses the reasons for and the evidence of more extreme weather events due to climate change. 
• Students will learn about the need for a proactive approach to this issue, as well as mitigation and adaptation strategies and efforts. 

Positives

• This video connects the dots between climate change and the increase in extreme weather events, with a focus on changes to the water cycle.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• The video begins with a commercial. 
• Students should be familiar with bar graphs and line graphs.
  

Differentiation

• Cross-curricular connections could be made with social studies, civics, and economics as it discusses government policies that encourage the rebuilding of homes in flood-prone areas and the economic costs of these more frequent natural disasters.
• Other resources on this topic include this TED-Ed video on the increase in extreme weather events and this video that explains how scientists demonstrate the links between climate change and extreme weather.

Climate change is making the weather more extreme. This resource provides students the knowledge to explore site-specific adaptive, mitigative measures and early warning and response strategies to build resilience to climate change impact. At 2:12 in the video, educators should note a misspelling of the word "precipitation" in the title of the chart. The data in the chart and other figures are accurate, and this resource is recommended for teaching.

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