This is the Tom Hartman program.

So we got a geeky science alert here.

This is just an absolutely amazing story.

It's over at Inside Climate News.

And essentially what they're saying is that our flood risk, our mudslide risk, our drought

risk, all these things are going up dramatically because these giant rivers of air in the upper

atmosphere are getting bigger, they're moving faster, but most importantly, they're getting

denser.

They hold more moisture.

Of course, they are what causes weather down here at the surface.

This is climate causing weather.

And so as the climate changes, as these rivers of air get more intense, the weather on

the ground gets more intense, our storms are worse, our winds are higher, and the amount

of water that falls, the rains are worse, but because it's more concentrated in these

specific high moisture rivers of air, the air around it is actually drier.

And so the places that are being hit by the air around them are getting droughts and

the places that are underneath these rivers of air are getting floods.

So this is just consequence one of global climate change, something that was predicted

for a long time.

We're actually seeing it now, and it's not pretty, it's not a good thing.

And I guess the principal question that I want to ask is how appropriate is it to use

fear as a tool to motivate people, and when does that become appropriate?

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