Wild Weather
Heat waves, droughts, hurricanes - on this encore 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 recent drought has devastated 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.