Climate Impacts & Extreme Weather
📋 What it is
A warmer climate loads the dice — making some heatwaves, heavy rains and droughts more likely or intense.
🗣️ Coach says
Climate change doesn’t cause any single storm, but it "loads the dice": a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture (heavier downpours), warmer oceans can fuel stronger storms, and heatwaves and droughts become more likely and intense. It shifts the ODDS, not the individual roll.
🧠 Memory hook
Warming loads the dice — heatwaves/heavy rain/droughts get MORE LIKELY or intense (shifts the odds).
😂 Giggle
What did renewable energy say to fossil fuels?
"Your days are numbered — mine are sustainable!"
😲 Whoa!
A warmer atmosphere holds about 7% more water vapour for every 1 °C of warming — which is why downpours are getting heavier.
✅ Quick check: Does climate change "cause" one specific storm?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
Not directly — it loads the dice, making certain extremes more likely or more intense over time.
Climate shifts probabilities of events, not single causes.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Think of dice: warming doesn’t force a "6", it just adds more 6s to the dice — more chances of extremes.