Wild Weather, Warming and Risk
On this edition of Earthbeat we connect climate change to the extreme weather events occurring world-wide.
Host Mike Tidwell speaks about our bizarre weather with The Weather Channel's only climatologist Dr. Heidi Cullen.
Adventure travel outfitter Ted Young, along with his wife Barbara, take trekkers into in the wilds of Northern Minnesota. With over 30 years in the business, this owner-operator of Boundary Country Trekking says the ice is breaking earlier and earlier each year -- and a two-year drought is devastating the border lake areas.
Joining Young is Cornell plant ecologist David Wolfe. Wolfe works with the New York Botanical Garden and farmers to develop a plan of attack for dealing with extreme weather, rising tides, and an onslaught of warm-weather pests.
Finally, Tidwell discusses what climate activists should, and maybe shouldn't do in talking about wild weather with Grist reporter David Roberts.
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Photo used courtesy of Australia's Dick Witt.
Comments
Mike
Your May day show rocked!!
But one thing you did not mention, when you talked of our northern hemisphere growing seasons extending due to global warming.
The folk in the southern hemisphere will suffer due to them getting the short end of the stick. They will endure a climate nightmare, created by the folk of the northern hemisphere.
That is unjust.
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Posted by: David Allen Harris | May 1, 2007 05:22 PM