Hurricane Havoc

Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez discuss recent hurricanes and the consequent damage experienced in Puerto Rico, The East coast of Canada, and Florida.

This video was recorded on September 28th, 2022, and published on October 2nd, 2022.

Some of the topics discussed:

• How Puerto Rico, still recovering from Hurricane Maria, a category 5 hurricane which struck in 2017, has recently been hit hard again by Hurricane Fiona.
• How resilience, mitigation and adaptation comes down to needing large amounts of money as well as a functioning government in order to recover from hurricane damage.
• The question is asked how long will it be before countries, hit by the devastation of hurricanes, can no longer rebuild because the money just isn’t available thus leading to the mass exodus of people.
• How Florida, having suffered a severe storm surge from Hurricane Ian, can expect more building collapses to occur which may only take place many years after the actual hurricane event.
• How the wavier jet stream caused by the loss of arctic ice is sometimes guiding hurricanes to hit areas they wouldn’t normally have done in the past.
• How climate disasters do not seem to be leading to an awakening towards taking meaningful action towards mitigating and adapting to the reality of climate change.
• and more. . .

Links:

• Cuba entirely without power after Hurricane Ian causes grid to collapse

• Millions in Florida urged to evacuate as Hurricane Ian nears

• How climate change is rapidly fueling superstorms

• Rapid intensification

• Canadian Hurricane Centre says Hurricane Fiona will be ‘historic, extreme event’

• Hurricane and Tropical Storms

• From then to now, Fiona’s historic hammering of Prince Edward Island

Regular Panelists:

• Dr. Peter Carter - MD, Expert IPCC Reviewer and the director of the Climate Emergency Institute

• Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University

• Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow and LEED Green Associate

Video Production:

• Charles Gregoire – Climate Reality Leader, Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum

• Heidi Brault - Climate Reality Leader, BA(Psychology), Library & Information Technician Diploma - Video production and website assistant - Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP26 Team Lead for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum.

Attributions:

Background Music:

• Title: Through the City II
• Author: Crowander
• Source: Free Music Archive
• License: BY-NC 4.0

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