Global effort needed to address climate change: U.S. environment expert

Jim Blackburn, co-director of the Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation Center from Disasters in Rice University, recieves an interview with Xinhua News Agency on Rice campus in Houston, the United States, on Sept. 13, 2017. Global efforts are needed to understand and address climate change as extreme weather has already affected people's lives with more severity than we ever anticipated, Jim Blackburn said. (Xinhua/Liu Liwei)