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Extreme Meteorology (EL NIÑO) with Marshall Shepherd
El Niño. La Niña. United Nations Environment Programme doomerism? It’s been a helluva week for Meteorologists and the humans who live on planet Earth, so we made you a fresh episode recorded just days ago with our favorite climate scientist, professor, author, and Weather Geeks podcast host, Dr. Marshall Shepherd. What is going on with this hurricane season? How do Pacific waters affect you all over the globe, what’s behind the headlines of the UN’s “strategic retreat” on climate change mitigation, how have El Niño weather patterns changed over time, what’s dust from Afri...
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- 170 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
- 322 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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Oh hey, it's that little tiny pumpkin on your co-worker's desk that stays good for months at a time. No one knows why. Allie Ward.
And there's a secret about that opener at the end of the episode, but let's get to it. So this was supposed to be a bonus episode of last week, but there's so much good info and it went long, so we decided to just make it a full Tuesday release.
So bat in your hatches. And get set to hear once again a guest who got his bachelor's, master's, and PhD in physical meteorology from Florida State University. He's been a NASA researcher, the president of the American Meteorological Society.
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