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CYBER

The Hypercane and Other Looming Climate Disasters

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Woe to those who live in the path of a hypercane. What’s a hypercane? I’m glad you asked. In a frighteningly possible future you’ll be hearing more about them. As the planet warms and the climate changes, we’re in for all kinds of new and bizarre extreme weather systems. It’s a hurricane so big and so powerful it extends through several states.


Today on Cyber, we’ve got something special. Another short story from Motherboard’s first book: Terraform. Terraform editor Brian Merchant and special guest Eric Holthaus come on Cyber to discuss how we personalize the climate disaster we’re all living through. Holthaus is a meteorologist, climate journalist, and the founder of Currently—a weather service built for folks on the front line of the climate emergency. He’s here to read a bit of his Terraform story ‘Hypercane.’


Stories discussed in this episode: 


Hypercane


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0:00.0

It's got the code. It's going to launch.

0:11.9

It's a unit system. I know this.

0:16.2

It's how all the files of the whole park. It tells you everything.

0:20.2

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:22.9

Eagle One, the package is being delivered.

0:26.4

Hello out there on the internet.

0:28.6

I am Matthew Galt, and this is cyber.

0:31.4

Some days, it feels like all you can do is watch world burn or drown, as the case may be. This is especially true for those

0:40.3

of us who live in a path of a hypercane. What's a hypercane? I'm so glad you asked. In a

0:46.2

frighteningly possible future, you'll be hearing more about them. As the planet warms and the

0:51.0

climate changes, we're in for all kinds of new and bizarre extreme weather

0:55.0

systems. So hypercane is a hurricane so big and so powerful it extends through several

1:00.6

states. Well, today on cyber, we've got something special. Another short story for Motherboard's

1:07.1

first book, Terraform. With me today on the show is one of the book's editors, Brian Merchant, and special guest, Eric

1:13.2

Holt House.

1:14.0

Holt House is a meteorologist, a climate journalist, and the founder of Currently, a weather

1:19.0

service built for the folks on the front line of the climate emergency.

1:23.0

He's here with us today to read a bit from his terraform story, HyperCane.

1:28.5

Eric?

1:31.7

Meeting, the National Weather Service has issued a Hypercane warning from Ocean City, Maryland,

1:37.9

New Montauk, Long Island, effective until 8 p.m. Sunday.

1:42.0

Radio crackled to life in the cab of the big Ford Superduty EV.

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