A warmer planet is creating drier conditions and increasing lightening activity causing catastrophic wildfires and other anomalies like firenadoes. This episode follows recent megastorm events in California and Alberta, Canada.
Climate change means warmer ocean temperatures and higher sea levels. This is intensifying and strengthening hurricanes and tropical cyclones. This episode follows the recent Mexico Beach, Florida and Houston, Texas hurricanes.
Perhaps the most calamitous of the effects of climate change is the melting permafrost and resulting rising sea levels. This episode tells the story of citizens most urgently affected by the melt in Alaska, faced with becoming climate refugees.
A warmer earth can lead to a deadly domino effect: an increase in occurrence, frequency and intensity of sinkholes and landslides. This episode tells the story of devastating events in California and British Columbia, Canada.
Warmer weather makes storms more volatile and unpredictable. As global temperatures rise, deadly rogue storm events are becoming more frequent and wider spread. This episode follows the stories of witnesses and survivors of terrifying lightning strikes.
As the atmosphere warms, tornadoes are appearing in places not accustomed to this deadly phenomenon. This episode follows the stories of storm chasers who’ve had to run for the lives and survivors of some of the deadliest recent tornadoes.
Peter Jaycock
Narrator
Ryan Marley
Director
Samantha De France
Producer