Mutant Weather - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Interno
A warmer planet is creating drier conditions and increasing lightening activity – this means more fuel AND ignition - causing catastrophic wildfires and other anomalies like firenadoes. The trend is showing more megafires and a longer fire season, in some cases making wildfires a year-round concern. Large wildfires are also burning in unusual places such as the Arctic Circle. This episode follows recent megastorm events in California and Alberta, Canada.
Megastorms
Climate change means warmer ocean temperatures and higher sea levels. This, in turn, is intensifying and strengthening hurricanes and tropical cyclones. Some experts believe it's time to add a category 6 to the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale. This episode follows the recent Mexico Beach, Florida and Houston, Texas hurricanes.
Freeze
Melt
Perhaps the most calamitous of the effects of climate change is the melting permafrost and resulting rising sea levels. The Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing, forever. Already, some coastal areas are in danger of disappearing in the next 10 years. This episode tells the story of citizens most urgently affected by the melt in Alaska, faced with becoming climate refugees.
Earth
As the earth heats up, the land under our feet is compromised. A warmer earth can lead to a deadly domino effect: an increase in 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.
Thunderstorms
Wind
Flood
Heavy rainfall is becoming more common and more extreme. In recent years, an unprecedented amount of flooding is drowning towns and changing the landscape, causing billions of dollars in losses and taking lives. This episode follows stories of major flooding in the southern US, forcing some people to leave the land their families have lived on for generations.
Heat
As global warming heads to 2 degrees Celsius, heat waves are on the rise, as well as droughts, fires and floods. Some cities are seeing the highest monthly temperatures in history. Ocean water is heating up, aquatic life is migrating north to more comfortable temperatures impacting ocean-based industries such as lobster fishing. Heat blobs – flash heat waves in the ocean - are leading to toxic levels of algae and plankton. This episode tells first-hand stories of an east coast fishing community facing the end of an industry and an epic heat wave in Montreal.
Air
The air we breathe is in jeopardy with an increase in greenhouse gases, both 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 on the rise. This episode explores the various causes of our compromised air.
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