SUBJECT AND CENTRAL QUESTION
Hurricanes, Floods, Droughts and Wildfires: Is Every Disaster Climate Change? This deserves its own session because media claims often outrun what attribution science can demonstrate
RECOMMENDED VIEWING
Roger Pielke Jr., Cornell University, November 2025, “What Climate Science Actually Says About Extreme Weather.” This is particularly suitable for Nerd Night because Cornell deliberately hosted a speaker who challenges some conventional public claims while working from IPCC and observational data.
CLASS DISCUSSION
Distinguish “climate change affected the probability or intensity of this event” from “climate change caused this event.” Which extremes have the strongest evidence—heat, heavy precipitation—and which remain harder to detect globally?
