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Extreme Weather and the Arctic Meltdown



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hile heat waves and more intense storms have been directly linked to a warming Earth, some research has drawn connections between extreme weather events and an Arctic that's warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. In this video Jennifer Francis, a senior researcher with the Woods Hole Research Center and member of the Arctic Basecamp team, explains how Arctic change may be driving these costly and deadly extreme weather events.

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