LIVE: Climate chaos with climatologist Daniel Swain

Earth’s climate is changing. As it does, extraordinary weather events – storms and floods, wildfires, droughts, heatwaves and deep freezes – are becoming more common and extreme. Climate chaos is mounting.

One striking example reported by NOAA is coastal high-tide flooding. Inundations along the U.S. seacoast have jumped 300% to 900% in the last 50 years. Since 1880, the mean global sea level has risen 8-9 inches (21-24 cm). It will rise another 7.2 feet (2.2 m) by the end of the century...