777 - Meteorology and Climate Change
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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About this episode:
Meteorologists look at data and history to help make sense of weather patterns and make predictions. This work, in turn, helps inform individuals and policymakers to prepare for and respond to weather events. But with climate records being shattered at every turn, and extreme weather like flooding, violent storms, and heat domes becoming more common, patterns and precedent start to fall away. So how are meteorologists making sense of all these changes and what could we expect to see in the future?
Guests:
Brian McNoldy is a senior research associate at the Rosenstiel School of Marine Atmosphere and Earth Science at the University of Miami.
Host:
Lindsay Smith Rogers, MA, is the producer of the Public Health On Call podcast, an editor for Expert Insights, and the director of content strategy for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh. |
| 0:22.6 | That's public health question at jh.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:29.6 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:33.6 | We talk about climate change in general. |
| 0:35.6 | Today we're going to get more specific about what extremes look like. |
| 0:40.3 | From heat domes to unprecedented rainfall and an ominous looking hurricane season ahead, |
| 0:46.0 | meteorologist Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at the Rosensteel School of Marine, |
| 0:51.5 | Atmospheric and Earth Science at the University of Miami, crunches complex |
| 0:56.1 | data to make observations about extreme weather and how climate change is playing out. He talks about |
| 1:02.2 | how all of the abnormal things we're seeing are actually becoming new norms and things will need to |
| 1:07.6 | adapt to. Let's listen. |
| 1:16.4 | Brian McNoldy, thank you so much for being here, and it's worth noting that we almost didn't have this conversation this morning. Can you tell us why? |
| 1:20.8 | Yes, hello, Lindsay. Yeah, as it turns out, we had had this on the books for a while, |
| 1:26.6 | and little did we know at the time that we'd be |
| 1:28.5 | having an extreme flood situation in Miami. And so, yeah, basically, I wasn't sure even 12 |
| 1:36.2 | hours ago if I would be hunting around for insurance claim items or being able to talk to you. |
| 1:43.5 | So it was a close call. But you are here. |
| 1:47.0 | You did get a little bit of floodwater. And that is pretty much what we're going to talk about |
| 1:51.9 | today is extreme weather happening in new and different places and what this all means. |
| 1:58.4 | So first of all, let's talk generally about this phrase that's going |
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