Mutant Weather

Mutant Weather

Mutant Weather

Season 1
00:30

Synopsis

To tell the story of each weather mutation, “Mutant Weather” highlights devastating recent events through firsthand survivor accounts and heart-stopping archives. Interviews with top climate experts and those on the front lines provide authoritative information and context with animated graphics offering visual explanations. From increasingly powerful hurricanes to ferocious wildfires to tornadoes destroying unexpected places to rapid melt and rising water levels to destructive weather patterns and shocking rogue phenomena, climate change is still accelerating at an alarming rate, faster than anyone had predicted. The not-so-distant future could hold a terrifying reality—mutant weather.

Episodes

Season 1

  • Inferno

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    A warmer planet is creating drier conditions and increasing lightning activity – this means more fuel AND ignition - causing catastrophic wildfires and other anomalies like firenadoes.

  • Megastorms

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    Climate change means warmer ocean temperatures and higher sea levels. This is intensifying and strengthening hurricanes and tropical cyclones.

  • Melt

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    This episode tells the story of citizens most urgently affected by the melt in Alaska, faced with becoming climate refugees.

  • Earth

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    A warming Earth can lead to a deadly domino effect: the increased occurrence, frequency and intensity of sinkholes and landslides.

  • Floods

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    In recent years, unprecedented flooding has been drowning towns, changing the landscape, causing billions of dollars in losses, and taking lives.

  • Sky

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    As global temperatures rise, deadly rogue storm events become more frequent and widespread, including thunderstorms in the north.

  • Tornados

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    This episode follows the stories of storm chasers who’ve had to run for their lives and the survivors of some of the deadliest recent tornadoes.

  • Heat

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    This episode tells firsthand stories of an East Coast fishing community facing the end of an industry and an epic heat wave in Montreal.

  • Air

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    The air we breathe is in jeopardy with the increase of greenhouse gases and industrial pollution, leading to an airpocalypse.

  • Cold

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    This episode follows storm chasers in blizzards, farmers’ livelihoods damaged by extreme cold and snow, and the impact of cold on our infrastructure.