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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - From the Vault: It's Hot. It's Flooding. Is This the New Normal?

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired in July 2021.


Last year, North Americans saw record-breaking heat, droughts, wildfires, and floods. The science is clear: we are living through the effects of climate change. Now scientists are trying to answer: is this the new normal?


Guest: Daniel Swain, climate scientist at UCLA 


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0:00.0

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0:03.0

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0:26.0

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0:29.0

It's hot, too hot many places across the planet.

0:33.0

With extreme heat comes extreme natural disasters.

0:36.0

In the US alone, this year is poised to be the sixth warmest on record.

0:41.0

States in the South, such as Texas, are experiencing unusually high temperatures,

0:46.0

this early in the year, in the triple-digit range.

0:51.0

South Central Montana is currently experiencing unprecedented levels of flooding,

0:57.0

so much so that they had to shut down Yellowstone National Park.

1:01.0

And earlier this month, Fort Wayne, Indiana was hit with a severe storm

1:06.0

that had wind speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour,

1:09.0

decimating the city and leaving over 50,000 people without power.

1:14.0

So with summer right around the corner, we thought it was the right time

1:18.0

to revisit an episode we did almost exactly one year ago.

1:22.0

I'm Sonar Englinton in for Lizzie O'Leary, and this is What Next, TVD.

1:33.0

Last week, I was sitting on my in-laws' porch in coastal Georgia,

1:36.0

watching the rain and wind and lightning pummel the beach in front of us.

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