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What's the link between climate change and extreme weather? This scientist has the answers

By David Aaronovitch
The Times·
16 mins to read

Oxford climatologist Friederike Otto, named on this year's Time 100 list of the world's most influential people, tells David Aaronovitch what we all need to understand about the catastrophic weather sweeping the globe (it's not all bad news).

People on a night-time Mediterranean ferry, evacuated from an island in flames, bright red dancing against the black sky and reflected on the water. School gyms in North America's Pacific Northwest turned into emergency air-conditioned centres for local citizens who can't take

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