Selects: How Droughts Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Droughts can be an inevitable feature of a local climate or a catastrophic result of human meddling. In this classic episode, learn the ins and outs of droughts including the American mother of them all, the Dust Bowl.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.0	Hi everybody, Chuck here on a lovely Saturday morning.
0:35.0	Got my cup of hot tea.
0:38.2	I'm looking up the window at a blue sky.
0:41.8	The birds are chirping.
0:43.7	It's August 26th, 2015, as far as your selects mind goes.
0:48.9	And today we're going to talk about droughts.
0:51.6	This California is in the midst of a bad one.
0:54.3	And we talk about that and more in this episode, How Droughts Work.
1:02.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
1:11.7	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:13.5	I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry, the chairs there making copies.
1:20.9	And this is Stuff You Should Know.
1:23.6	That was a classic skit, wouldn't you say?
1:26.2	And one of the only ones I liked by that guy by Rob Schneider?
1:29.7	Yeah, it wasn't the biggest fan.
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