2012 was a year of extreme weather: massive floods in Australia stranded entire towns. One day of torrential rains in Manila submerged half the Philippines capital. A super-typhoon ravaged the western Pacific and a record drought seared more than half the continental United States. As VOA’s Rosanne Skirble reports, these and other extreme weather events in 2012 were consistent with what most scientists predict will be the “new normal” as the world’s climate continues to change, and as nations struggle to respond to a warming planet.