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Video: Goodbye, snow? " Yale Climate Connections
Will climate change take snow away from us? Why are we seeing more “lake effect” snow?
In this video, meteorologist Alexandra Steele answers these questions and more, with guest appearances by Olympic skier Gus Schumacher, climate scientist Michael Mann, research professor Kenneth Kunkel, and climate communicator Susan Joy Hassol.
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What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.