Extreme Weather: Its Impact on Agriculture

Chris Gloninger, meteorologist and host of SkytopTV’s Extreme Weather, steps into a charged conversation with Admiral Michael Franken, the Pentagon’s point man on climate‑driven threats, and Secretary Tom Vilsack, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and now CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation. Together, they trace the fault line where national security collides with a planet in upheaval. Across the armed forces, hurricanes have torn at aircraft carriers, knocked out power grids, crippled command centers, and scrambled satellite systems—warnings written in wind and saltwater. It’s enough to make anyone take cover and reach for a familiar refrain. “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone,” Joni Mitchell once sang—a lyric that now hangs over the debate about whether today’s extremes are anomalies or simply the new normal. It’s a haunting loop, and too many remain caught in the reprise.