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NOAA scientist on climate change and wild weather events

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Some of the extreme weather we've experienced over the last 18 months: Droughts, floods, massive snowstorms and a hurricane that slammed into Mexico with the strongest winds on record.

The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration reported last week that climate change intensified extreme weather events in 2014. NOAA scientist Tom Peterson joins MPR News with Kerri Miller and explains the science of how and why that happens.

Peterson, who is currently the President of the World Meteorological Organization's Commission for Climatology, and Miller also talk about what it would take to curb the effects of climate change.