Extreme Weather: Its Impact on Agriculture

Chris Gloninger, Meteorologist, Skytop Contributor, and Host of SkytopTV’s Extreme Weather, engages with Admiral Michael Franken, a Department of Defense leader on climate-related threats, to explore the convergence of national security, extreme weather, and the emerging risks and opportunities they present. Reports of hurricanes damaging aircraft carriers, disabling power systems, compromising control centers, and interfering with satellites should give you reason to nestle in from the storm—and cue up your favorite music. “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone”—a lyric famously sung by Joni Mitchell—echoes the big debate over whether extreme weather is truly extreme, or simply weather. It’s a refrain that leaves me stuck in the reprise. Oh, baby, I don’t want to hear that song no more.