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Daniel Swain assesses climate change to flood causality

Publication: N.Y. Times

UCLA Expert: Daniel Swain: Assistant Researcher and Climate Specialist, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Synopsys: As heat waves become more persistent, scientists are trying to understand how climate change affects the occurrence of floods.

UCLA News: Swain said in terms of climate change causality, floods fall somewhere along the confidence spectrum between heat waves (“yes, clearly”) and tornadoes (“we don’t know yet”).

Read more at N.Y. Times.