Joe Biden has asked the US environmental protection agency (EPA) to investigate what role the climate crisis might have played in the deadly tornadoes that killed scores in Kentucky and several other states this weekend. In remarks on Saturday addressing the devastation, Biden said he wanted to know to what degree climate change might have been a contributory factor. The severity and the amount of time this tornado, or these tornadoes, spent on the ground is unprecedented,” she said. “In linking climate change to extreme weather like hurricanes or extreme rainfall and flooding some connections are easier to make than others,” Tippett told The Guardian. “You are promoting moderate extreme weather events to the premier league of extreme events [with further temperature rises],” he said.

Source: The Guardian December 13, 2021 06:06 UTC