3Qs: What is ‘global weirding’?

Auroop Ganguly — an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering who heads Northeastern’s Sustainability and Data Sciences Lab — explains how global climate change and extreme weather, such as hurricanes and heat waves, could affect water sustainability, critical infrastructures and human health.

What is the difference between global “weirding” and global warming?
In terms of climate change, is it surprising that this winter has been so warm?
Which other weather events play into “global weirding?”

PhysOrg

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