Hot As Hell: The Quickening Of Incredible, Deadly Weather Events / Nicholas Humphrey

Meteorologist and geoscientist Nicholas Humphrey returns to the podcast, sharing his insights into the various catastrophic, record-breaking heatwaves and weather events currently playing out in numerous regions across the planet. He explains how the complex dynamics of anthropogenic climate disruption is quickening the pace of these events, and in turn, how ill adapted and ill prepared we are in addressing the realities of this predicament.

BIO:

Nicholas Humphrey is a meteorologist and geoscientist, with the focus on extreme weather events and their connection to our destabilizing climate. Nick’s goal is to communicate, in an interdisciplinary fashion, the serious risks from climate tipping points, extreme weather events, and ecological collapse. He graduated with a BS in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus in societal impacts of extreme weather from South Dakota State University in 2013, and earned a MS in Geosciences - Applied Meteorology from Mississippi State University in 2016. He is a second year PhD student in Emergency Management and Disaster Science at North Dakota State University. He currently lives in Fargo, North Dakota.

Episode Notes:

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I reference the article India Isn’t Ready for a Deadly Combination of Heat and Humidity by Kamala Thiagarajan, published at Wired.

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