Increasing Weather Calamities / The Rise of YouTube

Segment 1: Guests: Daniel Swain, climate scientist, University of California – Los Angeles, California Climate Fellow, The Nature Conservancy; Jonathon Overpeck, climate scientist, Dean, School for Environment & Sustainability, University of Michigan. Around the world, countries are seeing weather extremes from excess flooding to severe drought and higher than average heat. We speak with two climate experts about the correlation between climate change and these extreme weather events. https://tinyurl.com/yb7rmur2. Segment 2:Guest: Mark Bergen, journalist, Bloomberg, Businessweek, author, Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination. YouTube has become the largest video-sharing platform in the world (with a quarter of the world’s population on the site) and continues to thrive with revenue exceeding 28 billion dollars in 2021. We discuss some of the platform’s shortcomings and where it’s headed next. https://tinyurl.com/ywmkcx8v