Chatter: Hurricanes and Governmental Response with Eric Jay Dolin
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🗓️ 2 October 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Every year, the eastern United States faces the prospect—and, too often, the reality—of major hurricanes that cause extensive physical and financial damage. This year is no exception; even as Hurricane Ian approaches the Gulf Coast, more storms are likely in the coming weeks.
On this episode of Chatter, David Priess chatted with author Eric Jay Dolin about the history of Atlantic hurricanes, with a special focus on such storms' influence on U.S. national security. They spoke about the devastating 2017 hurricane season, how tropical systems are covered in the media, Ben Franklin's role in hurricane science, the role of Caribbean hurricanes in the American Revolution and the Spanish-American War, the evolution of the federal government's storm forecasting and crisis response efforts, hurricane hunter flights, attempts to use technology to disrupt massive storms, Hurricane Andrew (1992), the effects of climate change on tropical systems and their impact, viewing hurricanes as national security threats, how humans assess risk, and films about hurricanes.
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| 0:14.7 | That's patreon.com slash LawFair. |
| 0:18.2 | Also, check out LawFair's other podcast offerings, rational security, chatter, LawFair |
| 0:25.6 | or no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm Katherine Pompilio, Associate Editor of LawFair, with an episode of chatter for October |
| 0:41.6 | 2, 2022. |
| 0:44.3 | At the time of this recording, Hurricane Ian is moving towards South Carolina after flooding |
| 0:48.2 | homes, shattering buildings, and trapping civilians in Florida. |
| 0:52.6 | Ian is one of the strongest storms ever to hit the United States. |
| 0:56.7 | For today's episode, in light of Hurricane Ian, the team at LawFair decided to crosspost |
| 1:01.2 | this week's episode of chatter, a podcast hosted by David Priese and Shane Harris that |
| 1:06.0 | features in-depth discussions with fascinating people at the creative edges of national security. |
| 1:11.2 | In the episode, Priese chatted with author Eric J. Dolan about the history of Atlantic |
| 1:15.7 | hurricanes, with a special focus on federal government activity related to storms and |
| 1:20.2 | how we define national security. |
| 1:22.6 | This is chatter. |
| 1:32.7 | Welcome to chatter. |
| 1:33.7 | I'm David Priese, publisher of LawFair. |
| 1:35.9 | This week, author Eric J. Dolan on hurricanes in governmental response. |
| 1:43.4 | Hurricanes make you realize the lack of a better word help puny humans are. |
| 1:51.2 | It would be nice if in the future we did, on average, a better job of dealing with hurricanes |
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