Summary: <p><span class="caps">ENCORE</span> We all talk about the weather. And now scientists are doing something about it: providing more accurate warnings before big storms hit. Discover how smart technology – with an eye on the sky – is taking monster weather events by storm.</p> <p>Plus, why severe weather events caused by a warming planet may trigger social and economic chaos.</p> <p>Also, meet the storm chaser who runs toward tornadoes as everyone else flees… and why your cell phone goes haywire when the sun kicks up a storm of its own.</p> <h2>Guests:</h2> <ul> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.weatherdata.com/about_us/mike_smith.php">Michael Smith</a></strong> – Meteorologist, founder of WeatherData and author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Warnings-Story-Science-Tamed-Weather/dp/1608320340">Warnings: The True Story of How Science Tamed the Weather</a></i> </li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.stormchaser.ca/Stormchaser.html">George Kourounis</a></strong> – Explorer and storm chaser</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/research/2007/scargle.html">Jeffrey Scargle</a></strong> – Research astrophysicist in the Astrobiology and Space Science Division at <span class="caps">NASA</span> Ames Research Center</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/">Ken Caldeira</a></strong> – Climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Global Ecology</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.christianparenti.com/bio/">Christian Parenti</a></strong> – Contributing editor of <i>The Nation</i>, visiting scholar at the City University of New York, and author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tropic-Chaos-Climate-Geography-Violence/dp/1568586000/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315606019&sr=8-1">Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence</a></i> </li> </ul><p><strong><a href="http://www.seti.cl/podcast-del-instituto-seti-a-donde-va-el-clima/">Descripción en español</a></strong></p> <p>First released September 12, 2011</p>
