How climate change intersects with natural disasters

Published: Aug. 27, 2020, 9 a.m.

As if a pandemic wasn’t enough, 2020 has already been filled with historic natural disasters: massive wildfires in California, hurricanes on the gulf coast, and huge storms in the Midwest. POLITICO’s Zack Colman, on what we know, and what we don’t, about how climate change relates with these catastrophes. Anthony Adragna is an energy reporter for POLITICO and host of POLITICO Energy. Zack Colman is an energy and environment reporter for POLITICO. Carlos Prieto is a Politico podcast producer. Jenny Ament is the senior producer of POLITICO audio. Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio.