139: [FlipScience x Reporting Asean] How Should Pinoys Talk About Typhoons To Save More Lives? (with Dr. Gerry Bagtasa and Dr. BA Racoma)

This episode of Ask Theory was made possible through a collaboration with Reporting Asean as part of its Sustainability Series. In this special episode, FlipScience EIC and Ask Theory host Mikael Angelo Francisco spoke to Dr. Gerry Bagtasa, a professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Meteorology (IESM) at the University of the Philippines Diliman, and Dr. Bernard Alan "BA" Racoma, an instructor at IESM. They talked about the behavior of tropical cyclones over the past 25 years, how tropical cyclones have affected the Philippines, the lessons we can apply to living with typhoons in the climate emergency, what needs to change about how we discuss the risks of tropical cyclones (including in the news), and more. Full transcript and data visualizations here: https://www.reportingasean.net/philippines-is-typhoon-behaviour-shifting-at-a-time-of-climate-change/

There are no comments yet.

Please log in to write the first comment.