Oh God. In case dear listener you're wondering what that was it was a

freaking sand tornado. I am a tech reporter, so how did I find myself out here?

It's like a cartoon out here, but like the really fatal kind.

It's hard not to notice the increasing urgency of the climate crisis and how closely it's starting to resemble

apocalyptic science fiction. This is Parable of the Soer right here. It's like way too hot.

Feels like society has collapsed.

And now after decades of inaction,

we have a very brief window,

maybe only one decade to make dramatic changes to how much carbon we

dump into the atmosphere if we want to potentially survive on Earth. So a few years back I decided that how we adapt to the worst weather impacts of the climate

crisis is in many ways a tech story.

One climate scientist told me it's an engineering problem and you better believe it's a business story.

So after 20 years of covering startups and innovation and tech companies and investment,

I went looking for climate solutions.

First I took the plunge and leased an electric car.

Oh my God, how do you plug at it?

How do I do?

I picked up a couple of ACE producers and engineers who are willing to

indulge in a little karaoke. Oh friends in low places. Do you know this song? No.

Because I got friends in low faces. And we drove all over the American West during some record-breaking heat waves.

The thing you definitely don't want to grab out in 118 degrees in the desert when you have like some driving to do is the AC.

I just keep sort of like trying to lower the temperature.

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