Bracing for Impact: America’s Risks and Resilience (3/18/13)

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🗓️ 20 March 2013

⏱️ 65 minutes

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“The Bay Area will be here 200 years from now. It will look different. There will be some things that have changed…but you’re going to be here. Miami won’t be here 200 years from now,” said John Englander, author of High Tide on Main Street. Englander discusses how sea levels are rising putting coastal communities at risk for flooding, larger storm surges, and erosion. Drought, superstores and other extreme weather events hit the U.S. hard in 2012. “We are seeing more extreme weather, and we likely will continue to see more extreme weather, and not only that but it will probably last longer,” says Angela Fritz, an Atmospheric Scientist at Weather Underground. A conversation on the impacts of climate change on communities in a warming world. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of California March 18, 2013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How will we power our future? Can we create a healthy and clean economy?
0:05.0	Climate One at the Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy, economy, and the environment.
0:11.4	Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time,
0:15.2	Climate One is the place where big ideas get heard.
0:18.2	With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and culture,
0:22.7	Climate One founder Greg Dalton gets to the heart of the matter.
0:26.3	It's our future.
0:27.6	It's time to come together.
0:29.4	Welcome to Climate One, a conversation about America's energy, economy, and environment.
0:33.5	To understand any of them, you have to understand them all.
0:35.8	I'm Greg Dalton.
0:37.4	2012 was an astounding year of weather records.
0:40.4	It was the hottest year ever in the United States.
0:43.3	A searing drought parched more than half of the country,
0:46.4	and a freak collision of thunderstorm slammed the Atlantic coast,
0:49.9	leaving 4 million people without power.
0:52.8	The grand finale was Hurricane Sandy.
0:56.0	Climate scientists have been warning about this kind of disruption for decades,
0:59.5	and they say severe weather will become more fierce and more frequent in the future.
1:04.0	Over the next hour, we'll look at recent wild weather and discuss what's ahead.
1:08.4	Joining our live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco,
1:11.2	we're pleased to have two people who spend their days thinking about this cheery topic.
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