{"649313":{"#nid":"649313","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"This year\u0027s summer of climate extremes hits wealthier places","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs the world staggers through another summer of extreme weather, experts are noticing something different: 2021\u0026prime;s onslaught is hitting harder and in places that have been spared global warming\u0026rsquo;s wrath in the past.\u0026nbsp;Wealthy countries such as the United States, Canada, Germany and Belgium are joining poorer and more vulnerable nations on a growing list of extreme weather events that scientists say have some connection to human-caused climate change.\u0026nbsp;What\u0026rsquo;s happening is \u0026ldquo;partly an increase in the statistics of these extreme events, but also just that the steady drumbeat, the pile on year-on-year,\u0026nbsp;takes its cumulative toll on all of us who are reading these headlines,\u0026rdquo; says\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/cobb-dr-kim\u0022\u003EKim Cobb\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Georgia Power Chair and ADVANCE Professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. (This story also appeared on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/years-summer-climate-extremes-hits-062125866.html\u0022\u003EYahoo! News\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-08-06 16:56:32","changed_gmt":"2021-08-06 16:56:32","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"student mentoring","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/this-years-summer-of-climate-extremes-hits-wealthier-places\/2021\/08\/04\/45c61b6e-f4ec-11eb-a636-18cac59a98dc_story.html","dateline":{"date":"2021-08-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-08-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"33791","name":"kim cobb"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}