Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd, a leading international expert in weather and climate, was the 2013 President of American Meteorological Society (AMS) and is Director of the University of Georgia’s (UGA) Atmospheric Sciences Program. Dr.
is a scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. I had the pleasure of collaborating with her Commission on Accelerating Climate Action, a recentof the American Academy of Arts and Science.
By now, it is pretty clear that climate change is impacting contemporary weather, particularly extreme events. A 2016 National Academies, which I co-authored, reviewed what we know about attribution of extreme weather events to climate change. Emerging science continues to reveal the likely"DNA" of climate change in heatwaves, intense rainfall, drought, and aspects of tropical cyclones.
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