I'm Alan Olga and this is Clear In Vivit, conversations about connecting and communicating.

When we look at plants and animals and how they're responding, we can take some inspiration

in that if there's a tiny lizard out there that is evolving in response to this crisis,

and maybe we can change some of the behaviors that are bringing it about.

I think there's some basic inspiration to be had.

That's Tor Hansen, author of a book with the wonderful title, Hurricane Lizards and Plastic

Squid.

It's an exploration of the many ways plants and animals are responding to the way we humans

are messing with their lives by changing the planet's climate.

Some of the ways those plants and animals are adapting are in turn spelling trouble for

us.

But we began our conversation with the more immediate human consequences of what Tor calls

global weirding and what's causing it.

This is great because your communication is so clear and vivid that you make me want

to talk to you and find out how you do it.

It's also interesting because just before we went on, you were telling me that you had

an example of global weirding that you lived through.

Global weirding is becoming real for all of us, I think.

And we've experienced it here in the Pacific Northwest where I live just in the last few

days with extreme rains and flooding.

And this is only a few months after we experienced record breaking heat waves during the heat

dome effect that stayed over the Pacific Northwest for days on end.

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