Segment from Weathering the Storm

What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate

Brian talks with Oxford University professor Gareth Davies about why the politics of disaster response are often so fraught and acrimonious.

A Winter’s Tale

The hosts tell the story of 1816, the “Year Without A Summer”, when a volcanic eruption in Indonesia threw so much ash into the atmosphere that New England saw snowfall in July.

00:05:05

Rain Man

Producer Eric Mennel recounts the story of Hatfield the Rainmaker, an amateur scientist in the late nineteenth century who believed he could make rain fall from the sky.

00:07:46

What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate

Brian talks with Oxford University professor Gareth Davies about why the politics of disaster response are often so fraught and acrimonious.

00:08:57