Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The heavy rains, record floods and extreme weather in the Central U.S. this spring are the kinds of events expected to become more common with climate change. On a reporting trip in Oklahoma and Arkansas last week, NPR's Nathan Rott decided to ask whether the people living through these disasters link them to climate change. NATHAN ROTT, BYLINE: First day in Oklahoma, first interview, a guy named Matt Breiner is on a bridge near downtown Tulsa watching a bloated Arkansas River surge underneath. Asked if he was worried about the flooding, he says, no, he's not, not for himself - maybe others down river, but he's fine. And then without prompting, he says this. MATT BREINER: It just tells us that if we're - we got to come to a conclusion about - not to get crazy - but global warming. If this is going to be an ongoing thing... ROTT: Now, as someone who covers a lot of natural disasters in the U.S., I can tell you that climate change
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