San Diego got its rainiest day in recorded history. There was flooding in Los Angeles and Palm Springs and rainfall records were shattered across Southern California by what is now post-Tropical Storm Hilary.

 Meanwhile, British Columbia is enduring the worst wildfires it’s ever seen and of course, Maui is still reeling from the deadliest wildfire in modern American history. 

Here in the Bay Area, we’ve had an unusually hot and muggy August but have otherwise been spared the extreme weather that’s pummeling other parts of the country. There’s a natural inclination these days to blame the wildfires, heat waves and yes, even a rare California hurricane on climate change. 

For more, Doug, Brett, and Patti spoke with climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh, professor of Earth System Science at Stanford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.