Mutant Weather

As global warming heads to 2 degrees Celsius heat waves droughts fires and floods are on the rise and some cities are seeing the highest monthly temperatures in history Ocean water is heating up resulting in the migration of aquatic life and the phenomenon of heat blobs or flash heat waves in the ocean that lead to toxic algae and plankton levels Oceanbased industries are taking a hit This

The air we breathe is in jeopardy with an increase in greenhouse gases polluting the air and trapping pollution under the smog Industrial pollution leading to an airpocalypse is just the start Methane frozen in permafrost is being released as the northern ice melts And an increase in carbon dioxide food for plants means pollen is also rising This episode explores the various causes of our

How are winters getting worse when the earth is getting warmer The warming planet is heating more rapidly in the north compromising the Arctic air mass called the Polar Vortex A warmer Polar Vortex is weakening the jet stream which usually serves to contain the arctic air But now the shaky jet stream allows frigid arctic temperatures to travel south bringing things like noreasters epic blizzards