From the Vault: It's Hot. It's Flooding. Is This the New Normal?
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This episode originally aired in July 2021.
Last year, North Americans saw record-breaking heat, droughts, wildfires, and floods. The science is clear: we are living through the effects of climate change. Now scientists are trying to answer: is this the new normal?
Guest: Daniel Swain, climate scientist at UCLA
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| 1:04.0 | It's hot. Too hot many places across the planet. With extreme heat comes extreme natural disasters. |
| 1:10.9 | In the US alone, this year is poised to be the sixth warmest on record. States in the South, |
| 1:16.7 | such as Texas, are experiencing unusually high temperatures. This early in the year, |
| 1:23.2 | in the triple digit range, South Central Montana is currently experiencing unprecedented levels |
| 1:30.6 | of flooding, so much so that they had to shut down Yellowstone National Park. And earlier this month, |
| 1:37.2 | Fort Wayne, Indiana was hit with a severe storm that had wind speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour, |
| 1:44.0 | decimating the city and leaving over 50,000 people without power. So with summer right around the |
| 1:50.7 | corner, we thought it was the right time to revisit an episode we did almost exactly one year ago. |
| 1:56.7 | I'm Sennaring Glenton in for Lizzie O'Leary and this is what next, TBD. |
| 2:07.2 | Last week, I was sitting on my in-laws' porch in coastal Georgia, |
| 2:10.8 | watching the rain and wind and lightning pummel the beach in front of us. |
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