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Bioclimatologist Park Williams: Questions

What the rest of us need to be asking when it comes to climate change.

Aired 01/07/2022

Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present and Future

Bioclimatologist Park Williams: Questions

Clip: Season 5 Episode 24 | 2m 34sVideo has Closed Captions

What the rest of us need to be asking when it comes to climate change.

Scientists are always asking new questions. Correspondent Laura Paskus asks UCLA bioclimatologist Park Williams what the rest of us need to be asking when it comes to western wildfires, climate change, and drought. “Fire is inevitable in western forests,” he says. But we can choose when it’s going to occur.

Aired 01/07/2022

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Bioclimatologist Park Williams: Cool Drought

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Today’s ongoing drought and how it compares with droughts in the ancient past. (1m 20s)

Bioclimatologist Park Williams: East vs. West

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How the dry areas in the U.S. are getting drier and the wet areas, wetter. (4m 9s)

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