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Unexplainable

Cloudy with a chance of chaos

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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It’s surprisingly hard to predict how clouds form, move, and change, but it’s essential to try. Because how clouds react to a warming world helps determine how hot our future will be. For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to sign up for our newsletter, view show transcripts, and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! unexplainable@vox.com We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.0

It used to be that there could be seven people to take care of each person

0:38.0

and that number is going down and down and down.

0:40.0

So that has impacts for the people who need care and has impacts for the people who are giving that care to.

0:45.0

Millions of Americans are care-taking for children and aging loved ones at the same time.

0:50.0

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0:56.0

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1:04.0

I had flown many different aircraft and planes for the Air Force

1:08.0

but never had the opportunity to fly an aircraft that's kind of in that World War II era, you know, 1949 vintage.

1:16.0

Big ol' propeller, regal radial engine on the front.

1:22.0

Once the storm started to form, we would get notified that the storms were starting to build in this area to get ready.

1:27.0

And so we'd prop the aircraft.

1:29.0

And when it was time to launch, then we'd fire it up and then take off.

1:34.0

And then you kind of look ahead and see this huge towering cumulon nimbus ahead of you.

1:39.0

That's, I mean to me, that's the ultimate cloud, the cumulon nimbus that's thunderstorm.

1:44.0

It's capable of so much power and so much beauty at the same time.

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