This week’s Three Degrees brings you a wide-ranging, deeply human conversation with one of the world’s leading climate scientists — Dr. Jagadish Shukla. 🎧🌍
Dr. Shukla has spent decades studying the forces shaping our planet’s most powerful weather systems — and how chaos theory, greenhouse gases, and political interference all collide in this critical moment of climate reckoning.
We talk about:
Why we can’t forecast weather beyond 10 days, but we can confidently model the climate of 2100 📈
The danger of rising wet bulb temperatures 🌡️ and what they mean for survival in South Asia and beyond
What happens when governments start dismantling the very institutions we rely on for climate data and forecasting 🏛️📉
How AI might help — or hurt — the future of weather prediction 🤖
And why he dedicated his new book, A Billion Butterflies, to his granddaughters — in hopes they can adapt to and thrive in the world they inherit 🦋👧
As Dr. Shukla says, “The solution to climate anxiety is climate action.” His message is clear — the future is still ours to shape, but only if we’re willing to fight for it.
This episode cuts through the noise and gets to the heart of why science, truth, and storytelling matter more than ever.
As proud members of the Iowa Writers Collaborative, we believe in using the written (and spoken) word to make sense of a chaotic world — and to help build a better one. ✍️💡
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