This is hidden brain.
I'm Shankar Vedantam.
Seemingly every other month, we hear about the latest example of a thousand year flood, a hundred year hurricane, the once in a lifetime forest fire.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
The road is on fire.
Fire in Oregon, just one of 70 wildfires raging across twelve states.
Portland, 116 degrees.
That is a new all time record.
I mean, we've never seen anything like this in the Pacific Northwest.
Historic and catastrophic flooding in western Europe, with at least 199 people killed and hundreds more still missing after violence.
Experts have attributed the extreme weather to climate change.
The impact of climate change.
No one is immune from climate change.
Whenever a climate related disaster strikes, policymakers and environmentalists issue a call to arms.
Here's activist Greta Thunberg.
Right here, right now, is where we draw the line.
The world is waking up, and change.