Does Climate Change Cause Extreme Weather?

• This video examines the difference between climate and weather, the connection between climate change and extreme weather events like Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Harvey, and how scientists use climate models to substantiate attribution science.
• Students will learn that climate and weather differ based on time, climate change increases the severity and frequency of extreme weather events, and climate models can be useful for comparing different carbon emission scenarios.

Positives

• This video is well-produced and full of eye-catching graphics.
• This video is concise, nuanced, and easy to understand.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• An advertisement may play before the video starts.
• It may benefit students to know how humans emit greenhouse gases.

Differentiation

• Students can use this video for an informative essay on how climate change impacts the Earth's systems.
• Students in civics classes can consider climate change mitigation or adaptation strategies that target the local, state, and national levels and write policies to influence people to employ them.
• This video can supplement a classroom discussion on how extreme weather events impact some groups more than others.
• This video can enhance a classroom discussion on how the issue of climate change is perceived within American politics.
• After watching this video, have students explore climate models like the ones described in the video.