An extreme weather report from America's weatherman | Al Roker

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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It's not just you: the weather is getting worse. And if there's one person who would know, it's "America's weatherman," Al Roker, who's spent decades reporting live from some of the worst storms and natural disasters in history. He explains how we can each take action to address climate change and work towards a more sustainable, hopeful future for generations to come.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:10.8	I'm Elise Hugh.
0:11.8	It's Ted Talks daily, hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires.
0:16.4	They are extreme weather events happening with more frequency and intensity because of
0:22.0	climate change.
0:23.6	Weatherman Al Roker took the 2023 Ted countdown summit stage to put into perspective just
0:29.7	how extreme the weather has become and it's human and environmental costs after a
0:34.7	sponsor message.
0:38.3	I first started doing television weather in 1974 when I was a sophomore in college.
0:44.1	And I have seen a lot of changes that I know you have from history making hurricanes.
0:48.7	We're talking about record breaking blizzards.
0:51.7	Hurricane Sandy.
0:52.7	This was really to me a game changer as far as climate when people realized what was going
0:57.3	on.
0:58.3	Hurricane Ida which came on shore causing massive problems, not just at landfall but also as it
1:03.5	moved in when causing massive, massive flooding.
1:06.4	A lot of us in most recently experienced dangerous air quality because of wildfires up in Canada.
1:14.7	Stretching is far so that smoke stretches as far south as Atlanta.
1:18.7	We're also experiencing atmospheric rivers, cyclogenic bombs of low pressure.
1:25.3	We've also looked at rising ocean levels and of course paralyzing winter storms stretching
1:30.8	from Texas into the northeast, unprecedented heat and flash flooding all within the last
1:37.0	couple of weeks.
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