Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons cause fatalities, destroy homes, wreck environments, and cost billions in cleanup expenses. As climate change accelerates, these storms are intensifying. Today, we’ll take a look at how tropical cyclones are formed, how they are affected by climate change, and what we can do to minimize the destruction they cause.
With special guest Dr. Suzana Camargo, Marie Tharp Lamont Research Professor in the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.
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00:00 Start
01:17 There’s so many hurricanes that the WMO changed the naming system
04:36 Tropical storm vocabulary
06:10 How do tropical storms form?
10:27 How does climate change impact tropical storms?
15:06 Ecosystem impacts
15:59 Economic impacts
17:27 Human impacts
19:17 Steps to support individuals
23:04 Steps to support larger coastal regions
24:11 Host Ethan Brown’s final thoughts
25:55 Introducing special guest Dr. Suzana Camargo, Marie Tharp Lamont Research Professor in the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University
28:09 Why do we use the words hurricane, cyclone, and typhoon all to explain the same phenomenon?
28:57 How did the discovery that climate change impacts hurricanes come to be?
32:30 How did this research overcome any early controversy?
36:04 How big a role does ENSO play in hurricanes?
38:14 Do you sense that the public has a sort of hurricane fatigue?
41:30 What can policymakers about hurricanes?
42:57 End credits
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Each episode of The Sweaty Penguin invites you to explore one climate change issue in depth, guided by an expert in the field. The goal? To make environmental issues less politicized and more fun, so that people of any political ideology or interest level can learn, engage, and find common ground.
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