Marshall Shepherd

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354 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 16 Sep

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Ologies with Alie Ward · Extreme Meteorology (EL NIÑO) with Marshall Shepherd · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

They absolutely do because the information coming from them inform us on El Nino.

They could be very busy this year.

I mean and and you know, there are also these sort of whiplash effects too, because you have an El Nino which leads to in the western part of the US, for example, rainfall, you know, stormy conditions and mudslides and so forth.

But then you get a lot of vegetation growth and then a year or two from now when things dry out.

All of that vegetation dries out and that exacerbates or amplifies the fire season.

And so these sort of Jekyll and Hide impacts of extreme rainfall and moisture, followed in subsequent years by extreme dryness, that's something that I've paid quite a bit of my attention to in the western part of the US because of this sort of dual personality.

So a key message that I would sort of leave listeners with.

for your amazing podcast is that

It's the extremes on all sides of the ledger that are the problem as our climate shifts.

It's not just it's going to get drier or it's going to get wetter.

It's both.

And even my good friend Dr.

Kim Cobb, who is an expert at Brown University and one of my closest colleagues, she's even looked at whether El Ninos are getting stronger or more frequent because of climate change and there's likely a connection there too.

So to your point that you made in our conversation earlier, it's all connected.

So I you know, I have to as a scientist sort of keep a very sort of objective perspective, but I very much

recommend that people remain attentive, be

environmentally and climate attentive when it comes to policy, it comes to voting.

I can't and won't tell you who to vote for, what side of the aisle to vote for.

The El Nino doesn't care whether you're blue or red.

It just does what it does because it's a part of a naturally varying system.

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