Episode 607 • • 1:31:50 - 1:37:51
607: Big Sandy
Thomas Friedman, Global Weirding, and Hurricane Sandy
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman appears in the "Years of Living Dangerously" series, linking the Syrian revolution to climate-induced droughts. Friedman proposes the term "global weirding" as a more effective meme than "global warming." Expert Heidi Cullen also claims that Hurricane Sandy was made worse by a foot of sea level rise caused by global warming, a figure the hosts dispute as scientifically inaccurate.