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This Is Why Worse Droughts Mean WAY Worse Floods
Season 3
Episode 8
We try to get to the bottom of this paradox and unravel the role that climate change is truly playing in our increasingly erratic weather and precipitation patterns. We also look at large climatological elements like atmospheric rivers and Hadley cells to see the roles they are playing in these changes. And we look back on the worst flood to ever hit the United States.
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13:01
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14:03
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12:11
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12:07
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10:42
Earth's climate has varied widely over its history so why do a few degrees concern us now?

12:02
Is this mass die-off of gray whales a warning sign for us all?

9:39
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12:10
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12:45
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10:58
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12:18
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10:34
Wet bulb temperatures are on the rise. And they can kill.