Welcome to Axis ProRata, a podcast that takes just 10 minutes to get you smarter on the collision of tech, business, and politics.

I'm Dan Premack. On today's show, Broadcom's new national security problem and SoftBank makes a play to buy WeWork. But first,

Extreme Weather. The big news this morning is that Hurricane Michael has rapidly intensified into a Category 4 storm,

with expectations that it will make landfall later today.

If it remains that strong, it would be the first category 4 ever to hit the Florida panhandle,

and there are concerns all the way west to Alabama, with huge storm surge and wind warnings. Now, this comes just days after a landmark United Nations report on climate change,

warning that there is still time to keep global warming pretty close to pre-industrial levels,

but only if the world takes, quote, unprecedented steps in the next decade

to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and how a lot of us live our lives. The report was conducted by a team of 91 scientists from around the world who reviewed over 6,000 studies and 42,000 peer-reviewed comments,

and they found that the risks of not heating their warnings could be catastrophic.

Now, to be sure, Hurricane Michael and climate change are not necessarily directly linked, as we had plenty of hurricanes before the industrial age.

But scientific consensus is that extreme weather is indeed on the rise and that our actions are contributing to it.

Now, not everyone agrees, including President Trump, but those who dissent are very much in the minority.

The bottom line here is that the world has a pretty hard choice to make, except the majority opinion, which could lead to a lot of short-term

pain or go with the minority and risk putting future generations in a danger that they

won't be able to work their way out of. In 15 seconds, we'll go deeper on this with Andrew Friedman,

Axio Science Editor. But first, this. Axios chief technology

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And now, back to the pro rata podcast.

We're joined now by Andrew Friedman, Axio Science Editor and our extreme weather expert.

So Andrew, every hurricane obviously is bad for the people who are in it.

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