How to Prepare for Wildfires
Unsung Science
CBS News
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
You’ve survived 2021—thanks, no doubt, to the science and tech that made your medical care, your internet, and your smartphone work. Tonight, New Year’s Eve, many podcast hosts are taking some time to reflect, to rest—and to post a re-run.
But not “Unsung Science!” To tide you over until next week’s fresh episode, we offer a free audiobook chapter from David Pogue’s book, “How to Prepare for Climate Change.” This is the chapter on how to prepare for wildfires, timed to coincide with the middle of the winter wildfire season in the western half of the U.S. As a New Year’s gift from us, here’s a terrifying and reassuring chapter on preparing for fires—and surviving them.
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| 1:00.7 | Happy New Year's Eve! |
| 1:04.4 | I'm David Pogue and this is supposed to be unsung science. |
| 1:08.5 | But most podcasts take the week off because hey it's new years and everybody's got better things to do. |
| 1:14.6 | But you went to all this effort to start playback so I'm going to offer you some good science listening anyway. |
| 1:20.5 | You're going to get chapter 13 of my audiobook How to Prepare for Climate Change |
| 1:26.3 | absolutely free. This is the chapter on How to Prepare for Wildfires. |
| 1:31.7 | And we're right in the middle of the winter wildfire season in the western half of the US, |
| 1:36.6 | especially California. I chose this chapter because it's got more stuff you probably didn't know |
| 1:42.7 | than just about any other chunk of the book. So here as a New Year's gift is a terrifying |
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