Rise of the Superstorms Full Special | PBS America

In summer 2017, three monster hurricanes swept in from the Atlantic one after another, shattering storm records and killing hundreds of people. Dive into the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. How can scientists better predict these storms, and what does the 2017 season tell us about the likelihood of similar storms in the future?
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[@LaramidiaWX]

It's nice to see some things haven't changed since I was a kid and one of them is that PBS/Nova makes excellent documentaries. Thank you!

[@Boxing4K]

I think you could probably add Frontline to that list. I'm Australian, and from my perspective, most TV in the states is rubbish, there are some exceptions, an occasional gem like, Dopesick or The Newsroom. But ALL of the cable news networks just produce biased, myopic, content, much of it, just misinformation. PBS, like the Australian Broadcasting Commission, in Australia, are far more trustworthy because they are not commercially driven.

[@MaxSafeheaD]

I'm fairly new to PBS, here in England, but PBS is pretty good I have to say.

[@warrenmitchell5984]

Good afternoon, thank you for sharing this educational video. I am an educator and frequently uses these documentaries in my classroom for Geography classes to educate students about hydrometeorological phenomena like these. I had the wrath of Hurricane Irma and Maria two weeks apart in the Turks and Caicos island archipelago. On the island of Grand Turk, 90% of all telecommunication equipment was damaged, there were no electricity, water, internet for about 6 weeks.

[@AwakeningWARRlOR]

See my 2 related playlists descriptions sheeple.

[@S.AK01]

No one does it better than PBS. So knowledgeable, well made, well researched content. Better than our schooling system.

[@mvsmvs8428]

yeah the problem is we have pics that showmno foot of sea lea rise here lol

[@IbnBahtuta]

If it trashes trees, it trashes houses built of wood. Here in England, we have a nursery rhyme that tells you how to avoid getting your house blown down. It basically amounts to telling you to build your house out of bricks and mortar. Who'd a thunk it?

[@mickgatz214]

It's snot a Nursery Rhyme... That's the story of teh Three Little Pigs?. 😂

[@DistinctiveBlend]

this is just a taste of what will come as there's more energy in the system and we keep adding to it

[@charonstyxferryman]

No, we are *trapping* more energy in it, because CO2 reflects IR (Infrared) radiant heat, i.e.. thermal radiation, which is the transfer of electromagnetic radiation. The energy comes from the sun, and our own contribution is tiny.

[@DistinctiveBlend]

@@charonstyxferryman You say 'no' yet end up stating the same thing... and yeah no kidding the energy comes from the sun. Are you having a bad day?

[@DavidHalverson]

going to have to create higher category of hurricanes (ie., Category 6 and 7, maybe even 8). Could come a time in the near future when hurricanes of Category 10 are seen barrelling down on the Caribbean and Gulf coast. Remember when Hurricane Hazel in 1954 came up and paid Toronto, Ontario, Canada a visit as a Category 4.

[@susancroft3734]

Sorry you didn’t mention my tiny island of Anguilla that Irma DESTROYED! It looked like a war zone. Worst Hurricane ever !!!!!I lost my house ! Gone!

[@DavidHalverson]

Probably why the documentary didn't mention Anguilla, since it got wiped off the face of the planet. Nothing to see here folks!

[@emmadeofsteel]

Sorry to hear about your loss. Maybe they'll make another doc featuring Anguilla - I'm sure they've got so much more material as this is our lives now unfortunately. Love to the people of Anguilla.

[@mb3558]

GEO ENGINEERING!

[@wishyoucouldbeme5580]

I remember watching the news half way round the world about this and just not understanding how the infrastructure could be so unprepared for this. It was a couple years after my area got hit by an equally is not stronger cyclone and the damage to the towns was minimal compared to this and the death toll 0. All of our infrastructure was built to government standards to purposefully withstand category 5 cyclones and prevent flooding. I couldn't believe that America didn't even have minimum standards

[@wiezyczkowata]

and it's not the first time it happened but they seem not able to learn... they know it will happen yet they don't do anything

[@briancohenthepfjmassive.4769]

Their defence is the bunkers underground. It's a lot like the 3 little pigs story in parts of the US but they fail to improve to stone or brick. SMH.

[@BIoodyros3]

Same with Tornados there. As a german i can say normal Tornado would kill Our roofs and windows but quess thats pretty much it. Our houses are Not build with paper wall🤯🙈😮

[@isuckatguitar6252]

Same, I'm in Hong Kong & we get get our fair share of Typhoons & flooding but the city is usually up & running the following day, except in some rural areas, I think the city has a special drainage system for when there's flooding, not totally sure, but it disappears fast here except when we had a record high tide & something like 6" of rain an hour at one point at the same time, then it took longer to drain, but I was on the subway going to work the next day. I remember I visited the US in 2010 & did volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans & the areas we were working on houses it looked like Hurricane Katrina had just hit a few months ago but this was 5 years afterwards!

[@ingridakerblom7577]

Not a country..

[@awilliams4957]

Great documentary PBS❤❤❤❤

[@nicolarollinson4381]

6 years ago. What has happened since then? I wonder. Are these places prepared for future events. How are the residents faring?

[@danielmohammed4166]

I remember this tropical storm passed over us her in Trinidad and tobago in the main developing region leaving flooding land slips and other bad things

[@user-pv6pe1xo3y]

The Gulf Stream used to be 2hour steam off Kurdo Banque , ESE of Main-a-Dieu, Cape Breton Island, NS, Canada. Now it is on Kurdo Banque. The stream is moving closer to Nova Scotia shoreline. This is affecting weather in the area. Shark's are a lot more plentiful now. Water's are warming.

[@collinstanton]

These are Dangerous and foreboding times, especially give the appearance of an incredible proliferation of profound human indifference of our world's health, and what the future holds for our planet.

[@jpsholland]

The arrogance of mankind that we think we can change the earth.

[@collinstanton]

@@jpshollanddefine you meaning of "change the earth." It appears you believe humans aren't affecting our planet's health, is that right? By the I like trains, nice modelling. Checked your channel. Cool.

[@mattsmith5421]

​@@jpshollandwhat arrogance? The earth has lost half its forest due to humans and its water is full of shite and man made chemicals. Not to mention it's going through the fastest temperature rise ever bar a meteor or huge volcanic event. Humans can and have massively effected the earth.

[@carolmayhardie]

​@jpsholland why would we even want to? Why try to fight against perfection? The 8 billion of us are pushing everything else to the brink. This opens us up to more superbugs we've never encountered before and extensive farming, keeping animals in terrible unnatural conditions will result in a disease none of us can fight. It won't be superstorms but more likely superbugs

[@DistinctiveBlend]

@@jpsholland funny that the people who say stuff like that also tend to think a god created everything just for us

[@user-rd1nj4ci6j]

THANK YOU

[@markwentz8332]

Is living in these area's not the very definition of insanity? I'm just a land locked Canadian but i just shake my head thinking about this.

[@ffj7]

Really grateful to be living away from flood prone areas and hurricanes. We get really scary and severe thunderstorms, but in concrete dwellings with high standard building codes, its not as life threatening thankfully. I'm also giving living in these areas a big nope.

[@kop-uv2dx]

one of my old geography teachers (a Dutchman) once told a tale of how a friend of his came to the Netherlands and my teacher told him upon his arrival at Schiphol Airport: 'welcome to below sea-level'... according to my teacher the guy blanched, turned around and got an immediate return ticket... apparently the idea of being below sea-level was incredibly scary to a guy who lived slap-bang in the middle of tornado alley... living below sea-level in the Netherlands is about the safest place you can be... the Dutch are the best world-wide when it comes to water management... and flooding is rare... it's what you're used to whether it's scary or not...

[@vm6824]

I'm a land locked Canadian too..and I can't wait to move near some water. Bloody boring here where I live! It has to do with how intelligent and prepared a place's govt is!

[@LaramidiaWX]

We just had an EF4 tornado here in Alberta. There are different disasters in different places.

[@NickBrowning-lk1oj]

A lot of landlocked places in Canada can definitely be succeptible to various natural disasters from superstorms from climate change.

[@audrey4150]

I live in western Canada. Like in the prairies and we don’t experience stuff like this. This is so interesting and crazy to me. We do get extreme cold where we have to watch electricity use or the grid will overload and shut down. Due to inflation, we have more homeless people. So in these extreme cold weather periods, emergency heated shelters are set up.

[@josephalberta1145]

I remember Maria. I think thats the one where trump went to Puerto Rico and complained about the budget while throwing toilet paper at them. Then they refused to allow non American ships to bring aid. Where are they going to get billions in tax breaks for millionaires if poor people keep asking for help after hurricanes? What a fearless leader. I am surprised they didnt declare complete independence after that fiasco. I dont know if they ever fully recovered.

[@dronetrunks]

It's currently storm season across the mid-west. Please stay on alert and listen to storm warnings. If you have time to get out the way don't hesitate!

[@NomadUniverse]

i dont understand the thinking here...."we evacuated you poorly last time and people died so we're not even gonna bother this time"

[@kimp6147]

Whew! 2017 was a hell of a yr. Here in the BVI we took a beating like we never felt before with Irma. The eye passed directly over us & put a lashing on these islands. Never experienced such devastation before I couldn't see how we would recover from the massive level of damage. We were out of power from Sept right thru till 2018 as the crews worked to get power restored. Volunteer workers from otr islands were brought in the help with the local electricity staff. My power came back in Jan while otr ppl got theirs Feb/Mar. Unlike the US, we in the Caribbean build predominantly concrete homes, wooden homes would just be suicidal. Irma however came with a strength unlike anything we ever saw & did significant damage to some homes beyond repair. Huge death tolls were expected once the seriousness of the storm was forecasted hence why the UK sent their ship with body bags but they failed to realized how we build our homes. Maria came 2 wks later but thankfully we missed a direct hit🙏🏽

[@user-se2pq4xq6s]

PBS excels.

[@OGSoundFX]

They forgot to mention how Trump dealt with those hurricanes. Sharpie-gate for example, or when he tried to deny Maria's 4000 victims... and of course his denial of Climate Change.

[@angelagendreau3586]

Exactly. He's like 'I talked to the president of the Virgin Islands'. Um dummy, YOU are (at the time) the president of the US Virgin Islands.

[@markthompson4859]

2017 is almost 7 years ago. How about covering current weather anomalies? I hope all who suffered during this time have recovered...

[@kevinstanley6174]

There's always one 😆😆

[@cr3262]

I remember how significant this was during the Fall and Summer of 2017 because these storms were hitting the nonexistent category 5 dangers.

[@angelagendreau3586]

No, they haven't. Not even close. Last I checked so it's still relevant. It won't be the last time either.

[@Sharon-yk7xm]

Man will be the past just like those from the past will become our future

[@elisabetelisboa1455]

Entao derver-se-ia proceder imediatamente à evacuaçao de pessoas que vivem junto ao mar, ou nao será assim?😮

[@kwan3560]

Warmest season that the global warming believers quoted. Earth had been warmer, much warmer a lot of times before.

[@charonstyxferryman]

That has nothing to do with today's global warming. Quote, Earth had been warmer, much warmer a lot of times before.

[@kwan3560]

@@charonstyxferryman Are you denying the fact that Earth had been a lot warmer before then? So who is the climate denier now?

[@nunyatd]

Rise of the Ionosphere Heaters super storms is more accurate.

[@somayyamughal8313]

This is the new normal

[@bobbart4198]

... AS usual, " It ain't THAT the wind is blowin', it's WHAT the wind is blowin' " ~ Ron White

[@thanexakamani4036]

Then bunkers with higher ventilation and entry points are needed, with enough space for rescue boats, this is scary, the only storm I know in South Africa is hailstorm, u only protect ur windows from breaking

[@helenkentwell5042]

From Australia. That is an excellent and intelligent suggestion.

[@charonstyxferryman]

I has a better suggestion: Don't live there.

[@tinasnewzealand]

The planet has heated up by 1.3 degrees Celsius..since pre industrial times...this is what we can expect especially with Antarctica melting... definitely effects the weather patterns..but the water is only on average heated up by 0.8C!!

[@NickBrowning-lk1oj]

Many months this year has been 1.5 September was 1.84 and El nino hasn't even linked fully with the atmosphere

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

where water and drainage flow is ur keys 2 see it artery

[@bobbart4198]

... Everybody wants an Ocean view ... Well, now you got it ! ...🐟🐟🐟

[@sassscott]

I'd think all the weapons testing across the world has alot more to say for the cause of any global warming but it never gets brought up, the masses and their over consuming and the factories and machinery for fossil fuel burning ect , neither's much better then the other imo

[@Debbie-henri]

Certainly humanity's wars are becoming more destructive, and it takes a great deal of unnecessary energy to produce military weapons, equipment and necessities, as well as ship all these things about from country to country. Evidently power and speed is of prime importance when comes to logistics, and there's no regard for fuel efficiency within any military transport vehicle. Never mind what happens when a missile hits the ground. Instant soil disturbance throwing who knows how much CO2 into the air. WW1 and WW2 must have been catastrophic on the environment, given the number of battlefields, the damage to cities and towns. All that carnage, and we've never really stopped warring. The scale of wars may be smaller but nowaday smaller devices appear to have ever greater fire power. It wouldn't surprise me if the accumulative pollution and destruction of war and military procedures in the 20th century equalled a sizable proportion of pollution and destruction caused by modern industry.

[@jayceewedmak9524]

Funny you mention this as I just heard - for the first time - that war is more destructive to the environment than the factories producing the equipment etc for the war. CBC radio 1 (Canada)

[@chapman1569]

I would add that tourism space travel will add to the creation of more CO2. I dont mind space exploration but all the millionnaires going up in space for fun it not essential. Same for all the plane travel for leisure, just waste and pollution. Our quality of life will suffer greatly in the future because nobody wants to change their habits.

[@BROWNDIRTWARRIOR]

PBS you have a public responsibility to document the truth about how bad this problem is about to become because of inaction. We need a full throated documentary on what alarm bells the serious climate scientists are sounding about what is coming as we cross the 1.5 degree threshold. We are in serious trouble and society needs to be properly informed with no sugar coating.

[@hackerkillerlee]

Please build your houses in concrete & iron bars 🙏 from now on by the states' subsidy . ❤❤❤

[@DavidHalverson]

concrete will be a poor construction material against water, R&D will be required to come up with a better alternative that is waterproof, earthquake proof, and if you live in a volcanic area, lava proof. All buildings will have to be equipped with an emergency escape system to the outside and radio communication after the disaster has passed, months or even years later.

[@brunojm7282]

This is due to solar and astronomical cycles. We had these before and will have them in the future, same for ice ages.

[@LEEHOLMES-gq2gj]

My heart goes out to all the people that lost loved one's and their belonging ✌️ and a big 👍 to all the Rescuers that put their own life's on the line to help the people that needed them what a great bunch of people yous all are ✌️👍👏👏👏

[@Hanibaltherogue]

Scary and alot of sad stories, and then again even without us and even before us the climate of this planet has always changed and will always do so. Sure we are not helping but it will go south anyways... All we can do is help each other and learn to better live with there catastrophes because the planet does not care about us.

[@justapilgrim3968]

Keep Me Safe Til The Storm Passes By. In The Dark Of The Midnight Have I Oft Hid My Face While The Storm Howls Above Me, And There’s No Hiding Place ‘Mid The Crash Of The Thunder, Precious Lord, Hear My Cry Keep Me Safe Till The Storm Passes By Till The Storm Passes Over, Till The Thunder Sounds No More Till The Clouds Roll Forever From The Sky Hold Me Fast, Let Me Stand In The Hollow Of Thy Hand Keep Me Safe Till The Storm Passes By In The Dark Of The Midnight Have I Oft Hid My Face While The Storm Howls Above Me, And There’s No Hiding Place ‘Mid The Crash Of The Thunder, Precious Lord, Hear My Cry Keep Me Safe Till The Storm Passes By Many Times Satan Whispered There Is No Use To Try For There’s No End Of Sorrow, There’s No Hope By And By But I Know Thou Art With Me, And Tomorrow I’ll Rise Where The Storms Never Darken The Skies In The Dark Of The Midnight Have I Oft Hid My Face While The Storm Howls Above Me, And There’s No Hiding Place ‘Mid The Crash Of The Thunder, Precious Lord, Hear My Cry Keep Me Safe Till The Storm Passes By When The Long Night Has Ended And The Storms Come No More, Let Me Stand In Thy Presence On The Bright Peaceful Shore; In That Land Where The Tempest, Never Comes, Lord, May I Dwell With Thee When The Storm Passes By. Mosie Lister..

[@ngaourapahoe]

Is there an explanation by meteorologists ?

[@DavidHalverson]

The Caribbean Islands may be forced to build either above ground structures that are hurricane resistant, or build underground mile deep cities enclosed within spheres and built like a submarine to keep out the seawater and ground water from the rising sealevel due to global climate warming.

[@alexandertsanga]

19:42-mins Wtf ! Those are some crazy reasons for Not leaving their House that is Under Water.

[@FQofNambour]

The new normal? November 20, 2023 - Dominican Republic authorities on Sunday said at least 21 people have died after heavy rains the day before that have displaced thousands of residents. Over 13,000 people in the Caribbean country had to move to more secure areas after torrential rains flooded homes, caused power outages and damaged bridges and parts of roads, the Emergency Operations Center (COE) said in a report on Sunday afternoon. Climate change is real. Get used to it because it is only going to get worse.

[@justadildeau]

Climate has always changed. Get used to it

[@samanthalandry2296]

I live in New Brunswick. Which is on the east coast of canada. Today my daughter and I took a walk about 20 min away to the little town/village closest to our house. Along the way I remarked how crazy it is that we’re at the end of December and I was walking with just a hoodie, no coat, no hat, no gloves. And wasn’t cold. My daughter is nine. I told her when I was her age we’d have crazy storms almost once a week where so much snow would come down it would take a couple days to just be able to get the car out of the driveway. And on top of that, the power would go out and stay out for up to a week at a time. I’ve never really known much about global warming but it’s very clear something isn’t right.

[@justadildeau]

@samanthalandry2296 I remember walking around in an Albertan town in a tshirt December 21st 1998. It was 15 degrees. You're saying nothing at all

[@samanthalandry2296]

@@justadildeau wow, when did this become a contest? Lol and don’t tell me I’m not saying “nothing at all”. I AM saying, exactly what I said. Get a life dude.

[@justadildeau]

@@samanthalandry2296 what you're attempting to say means less than nothing. Hide under your bed because the climate has been warming since the end of the last ice age. PATHETIC CLIMATE EXTREMIST 🙄

[@hevchip741]

good info and easy to understand. these thing happen and its 9awful to many but still we all abuse this planet and power. who stops using their tv, stops going on holidays, cuts down drastically on their electricity use, we are all to blame, some more than most, but that doesn't give us small users the right to stop cutting back.

[@Daveyboy4]

I dont know why people are surprised when thwy have extreme weather in places where they have etreme weather!?

[@mandysmith7619]

Got to start building better ...these were in 2017 about 5 years AFTER Storm Sandy caught NYC off guard and subsequently decimated their system and cost lives, and 10 years after Katrina ...these Hurricanes are not going away and in fact are getting stronger and are happening more often, yet the structures im seeing being built look like theyd barely survive a fart in the dark.,.. peoples lives are more important than either a builders or a Governers bank balance 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@curtiswheeler2212]

I pray for the children, I pray for the weak if we only new how the weather was a Galactic year ago?

[@TwilightZone-cj5ct5rn9x]

Cloud seeding isn't out of the question. It intensifies the power of a hurricane.

[@cathycooper5606]

They need to re build further away from the sea

[@Debbie-henri]

I wonder whether they are not so much reluctant to build further inland, but can't. They may be stuck with the land they live on, having bought it, can't sell it for much, certainly not enough to but land on safer elevations. It just may be that the land further in is not for sale or they can't get planning permission. These little islands are often dominated by a few super rich who buy a lot of the land, want to keep it intact as farm or forest, and fall silent when the question of relocating the populous comes up. Of course, the government does feel that it is it's duty to build a nice new town on a hill for the people either. Sadly, humanity is socialist to the degree of helping clean up and temporarily giving space to homeless families in a disaster, but not quite socialist enough to relocate into better, safer locations.

[@marski-vv4qb]

It’s not what’s causing them it’s who’s causing them can you see why they want it to happen?

[@Barbarra63297]

We are in the Quarternary Ice Age, slowly coming out of it, it's going to get worse before it gets better.

[@MrMoosekiller31]

I still say weather manipulation has alot to do with this don't believe me look it up

[@Misses-Hippy]

TS 19:37 Afraid they would be thrown in with 'a bunch of people somewhere'. Decode that for me.Who is it the 'good people' would rather drown than be with?

[@Jablicek]

I suspect that's precisely why it was left in.

[@jameswillett2403]

Sadly it's only going to get worse. Soon there will be a category 6, then 7 and so on. If you live near the coast, good luck with that.

[@terrydoucette6037]

When DARPA is added to the equation ,this is what we will be in for Geoenginering has been goi o. For 60 years or more

[@cyberfunk3793]

Yep that makes perfect sense, intentionally do the thing that benefits nobody and certainly not even the rich people that you think are running the planet.

[@alexdy5984]

Jesus has power to calm the storms... We might as well repent and surrender to him... And trust him...

[@angieng71]

50:01 "God of evil" there is such a phrase?!! Lol

[@babakgholian3467]

Nature does not allow excess . Rule of Nature .

[@americanakita]

They spoke countless times of water levels rising. But there seems to be no one thinking: rising water levels equals more water, lets try and find a way to use that in our advantage. And find a way to get rid of the salt and turn it into drinkable water and water for crops and animals. 🤔

[@geoking.3079]

I can't help wondering nowadays who've been Practicing Weather Control???!!

[@DAGATHire]

🤡

[@lpipson]

IPCC Report 4? i think from memory actually recommends against stopping weather modifications , and outlines some of the multi/cross continent programs in place

[@Kevin_geekgineering]

deny until it gets you

[@palladini9718]

So much of the Southern USA is screwed, time to move north folks!

[@PartySpock]

It,s not increasing

[@abro791]

Yeh ... extreme weather here to stay ... glad everyone's so positive!!!!!!!!

[@Him_He_Me]

Sorry I cant watch this unfortunately there's too many advertisements.

[@charonstyxferryman]

There're a lot of them, and they're annoying. I had revived an old habit: As soon as the ad start I start reading a book, take a look at the weather forecast, work-plan, and a lot more.

[@chapman1569]

When the advertisement start at the end of a video, I cut the sound and read the comments, that way, the channel I want to support gets some money. And sometimes I learn something while reading comments. But I agree sometimes it is just too much, and I abandon or avoid the channel. I once let an add run the full length just out of curiosity, It was an add for supplements promoted by Dr Grundy to minimize cell damage. It ran for over 45 minutes, and toward the ends it just kept repeating, act now, order now, click the link, blah...blah...it left me exasperated.

[@Kaethena]

The sad thing is, people have an evolutionary compulsion/fascination to live near water. And this kind of stuff is just going to get worse and worse. The easy answer is to just not live near water, where it's possible. For islands, obviously that isn't something which can be easily avoided but in a place as massive as the US, it very much can.

[@danieltallon5087]

All normal.

[@gamingtonight1526]

If you have a concrete city, you get a drowned city. And in a decade...?!

[@opheliaelesse]

James Hansen "The storms of my grandchildren" They have known for a very long time what is coming. Politicians and industries are destroying us.

[@patricianoll1229]

We all gonna died lol

[@BROWNDIRTWARRIOR]

The US has to spearhead a Global Climate Initiative where all industrialized nations take a wartime footing on tackling CO2 reduction, capture and sequester.

[@Eskay1206]

no problem just get Trump to use his sharpie to move the storm away

[@SkyeSeafoodandeatit]

Native American Indians never settled near the coast

[@wiezyczkowata]

how there are still people who denies climate change is beside me, just because their little bubble in world didn't change for them it means nothing is changing anywhere...

[@jasondgandrew320]

Climate change IS real - it's the people running around like toddlers armed with plastic buckets and spades trying to stop the tide, claiming that it's because of the use of fossil fuels that's fiction.

[@angelagendreau3586]

Politics and ignorance. Science is woke and bad because it doesn't suit their agenda.

[@thunderstorm6630]

3 times a 500 years storm? sorry but this is not true, it is the new type of storm which will hit us every year!

[@ClassicRiki]

12:20 I do not understand why so much of US citizens have wooden houses…brick built homes are far, far stronger. At the very least…why does everyone not have a waterproof sealed bunker?!

[@chapman1569]

You might get some info in the movie: The garbage warrior. Basically, he teaches how to build homes/shelters with bottles and cement, they can even collect water, they teached islanders to build their homes like that since they got lots of typhoons. They are wind and storm resistant. We will have to build smarter and in safer areas to avoid these catastrophic events.

[@grahamhenderson7402]

Un predicted is how the earth works not due to global warming the sun and the universe we live

[@clmm7418]

The way America neglected Puerto Rico was so disgusting. America either doesn't know or doesn't care about the rest of the Worlds opinions about them.

[@grantbartlett8261]

The American Government has lost it way. A government run by big business, operating without any regard to the average person in society.

[@damiengarland6012]

i'm sure this is the plot to twister

[@YTViolatesourrightstofreedomof]

& Praying won't help you, there is NO GOD....

[@jasondgandrew320]

What is it then? A holographic illusion? Denying the existence of God is denying the existence of life.

[@briancohenthepfjmassive.4769]

I remember potus45 free throwing paper towels out like an athlete to the people. He was very heroic in his greatest hour.

[@briancohenthepfjmassive.4769]

I couldn't stop laughing at the brainless moran.SMH.

[@angelagendreau3586]

@@briancohenthepfjmassive.4769 Yeah, it was like a political dog and pony show when people were homeless and dying.

[@Andrew_460]

Storms are not actually getting stronger. If you learn how they actually measure a storms strength you will understand why.

[@finding_the_fantastical]

Surely the weakening magnetosphere has a huge effect on our climate and the increasing strength of storms. The lightning that's happening now in some places is crazy huge!!

[@ydro11]

there is a very easy way to find the reason of these climate extreme. it is us. you make me think of the man who is asked to point his left ear, and use his right hand to point it. why make it complicated when it can be so simple. we , us, all human, made these changes, with our obsession to think we are too tiny to have influence on climate. I am indeed too tiny, and you are also, but all of us, all together, (sadly , the only way we are united) are responsible for this climate change. dont look at any other place that where equilibrium has been affected, which is our layer of atmosphere into which we throw our garbage for more than 100 years now. you really expect no consequence of US throwing garbage into what we breathe? Really?

[@finding_the_fantastical]

@ydro11 and you make me think of a man who would rather be belittling and insulting than build someone up.... for sure humans have an effect on the earths climate but unless all that garbage is somehow throwing the earth off balance and making the poles shift, I highly doubt we are soooo magnificent and powerful enough that we are the sole reason the environment is changing 🙄 nice try though.

[@GeomagneticEarthWatch]

You are very correct

[@devon1247]

At the moment there isn’t a link between activity in the magnetosphere and the energy budget that affects weather in the troposphere - it really is many orders of magnitude smaller. While it’s true that if we lacked a magnetosphere our atmosphere would likely blow off due to solar winds, this would result in a catastrophic net cooling which some suspect is to have happened on Mars. Climate and weather would be more guided by these effects if the lower 10km of the atmosphere were ferromagnetic, but it’s such a small effect. Most of the atmospheric heat is actually emitted from the earth; the surface is sympathetic to the shorter wavelengths that the sun largely emits whereas the atmosphere overall is more sympathetic to the infrared radiation that the earth emits (gasses that absorb the earth’s radiative emissions particularly well are the greenhouse gasses). We can expect more extreme weather through a variety of processes and feedbacks that introducing more kinetic energy into the earth’s system does, and these causes and effects take place much more dramatically in the troposphere

[@Bubbleshandle]

Fearporn 😂😂😂

[@awilliams4957]

So hard,people losing everything that took them a lifetime to achieve,my heart goes out to them.Take care of them lord Jesus❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@rainwinter8798]

Evaporation at work 😁

[@jimcook8933]

Ask David Keith how his Harvard run geoenginerring experiment debacle to reflect sunlight back into the atmosphere is working out for us!

[@WollongongSkyWatch]

Shh, no one wants to talk about anything that even though it's visible above all their heads. How handy that everyone is looking down into their mobile devices.

[@shelleyfortier3094]

Weather modification!!

[@BigBlueTravels]

Forest Masters is so tough, he sets up a 5'000lb wind measurement machine with his BARE HANDS.

[@louisebean9428]

Now in 2023, superstorms and flooding worldwide are even worse!

[@MaxSafeheaD]

Guess which people of all have poured out more, per person, than any other on earth? Americans had better come to terms, internally, who is most responsible (as I'm certain most are comparibly responsible as most others in "developed" countries. First Id look at who is funding the denial of the facts.

[@user-of4kw7hr5j]

Global warming And climate change effects on the world places Environment economic growth and agriculture's businesses And multiple times melting of iced world glaciers and Polar Vortex extremely weather conditions 24/7, atmosphere Air Land ocean seas and Healthcare agriculture's.

[@HDXBear]

Time to pay the fiddler

[@eeccee11]

We pollute everything

[@The_rabbit_hole]

Can't haarp break up storms? It can make them!!

[@nicevideomancanada]

Punishment by Mother Nature for burning so much Fossil Fuels.

[@ezmepetersen2503]

Interesting image at 47:29 showing damaged solar farm debris strewn over several acres of ground. Apparently global warming, resulting from industrialisation, is to blame for stronger hurricanes and cyclones. Does that really make sense and is it really the best we can hope for - to produce more greenhouse gas in the production of this remedy in order to counter the effects of previous levels of greenhouse gas? God help us!!

[@AtleBerven]

What is up with some folks and totally silly names? Forrest Masters? Really? And what about Mr.Needham? Is he constantly hungry?

[@rodneyalicaway1438]

This is a example of an Wake up Call Super storms but some of us, it doesn't have realize. It is the time to heal the world only God know everything.