Investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe discussed changing weather, polar wind shifts, and the effects of global warming. “Spain has been suffering drought while Northern Europe has been soaked by wind and rain,” she said, while approximately 300 million trees had been knocked down in France. She reported that most weather scientists were convinced that the changes were “human-induced” and not the effects of a “natural perturbation in weather cycles.”
She featured her interviews with leading meteorologists, including Dr. James Baker of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who remarked that insurance companies were “very concerned” that they would have to pay out (or refuse to cover) coastal properties due to rising sea levels. Howe also spoke about computer models that were predicting rising global temperatures in the future, which would allow more water to be absorbed into the air, causing severe rain and flooding.
Climatologist Dr. Tom Quigley told Howe that humankind was essentially “performing an uncontrolled experiment” with the world’s weather. The first and last hours consisted of news and Open Lines.