Mutant Weather

A warmer planet is creating drier conditions and increasing lightning activity This means more fuel and ignition causing catastrophic wildfires and other anomalies like firenadoes The trend shows more megafires and an extended fire season sometimes making wildfires a yearround concern Large wildfires are also burning in unusual places such as the Arctic Circle This episode follows recent

Climate change means warmer ocean temperatures and higher sea levels This in turn intensifies and strengthens hurricanes and tropical cyclones Some experts believe its time to add a category 6 to the SaffirSimpson hurricane wind scale This episode follows the recent Mexico Beach Florida Houston and Texas hurricanes

One of climate changes most disastrous effects is melting permafrost and the subsequent rising sea levels The Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing forever Some coastal areas are in danger of disappearing in the next ten years This episode tells the story of citizens most urgently affected by the melt in Alaska faced with becoming climate refugees

As the earth heats up the land under our feet is compromised A warmer planet can lead to a deadly domino effect An increase in the occurrence frequency and intensity of sinkholes and landslides More voluminous rainfall leads to massive mudslides and debris flows wiping out entire communities This episode tells the story of devastating events in California and British Columbia Canada

Heavy rainfall is becoming more common and more extreme In recent years an unprecedented amount of flooding has drowned towns and changed the landscape causing billions of dollars in losses and taking lives This episode follows stories of significant flooding in the southern US forcing some people to leave the land their families have lived on for generations

Warmer weather makes storms more volatile and unpredictable Sudden downburst thunderstorms giant destructive hail and random lightning can strike on a sunny day As global temperatures rise deadly rogue storm events are becoming more frequent and more widely spread including an increase in thunderstorms in the north This episode follows the stories of witnesses and survivors of terrifying

As the atmosphere warms tornadoes appear in places not accustomed to this deadly phenomenon including more densely populated areas Tornadoes are no longer contained in Tornado Alley They are also becoming more deadly as tornado clusters grow This episode follows the stories of storm chasers whove had to run for their lives and survivors of some of the most harmful recent tornadoes

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