Welcome to Outside In, I'm Sam Evans Brown, and it is time for another edition of Ask Sam.

Why do geese make feasts?

Does a bubble bees sneeze? Can a person eat trees?

Can a polar bear freezes?

Is a kiddies don't know? Ask Sam. So this is a kidney stone kind of like a pearl and a clam.

But I don't know, ask Sam.

So this is a regular segment where we answer questions from listeners

usually about animals and animal butts.

It's usually just random nature facts, but today I am here

with producer Felix Poon. Hello, hello. And Annie Ro Peak, NHPR's Energy and Climate

reporter because this is the Ask Sam climate edition to celebrate the fact that

Annie has launched a new climate reporting project called By Degrees.

Okay, here's the first question.

Hi Sam, an outside in crew.

I was listening to your episode on the Carrington event,

and you said something really fast that brought up a lot of questions in my mind, which is mega droughts.

I just feel like there's so many things in this category, like the massive earthquake that we were due for in the Pacific Northwest like

mega droughts in the Midwest like pandemics right?

And I was wondering if the United States is doing anything to prepare for mega drought, if we are prepared for a mega drought.

I live in California, so it's particularly prescient for me. Thank you.

See, uplifting.

Did anybody read Dune the sci-fi books?

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