ReThink History: Storm Warning: America's Earth Science

society, culture, history · EN-US

Every weather forecast, every hurricane warning, every sustainable fishing season rests on a century of patient federal measurement. Storm Warning is a 12-part history of the research arms of NOAA, the EPA, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research: how they were built, what they delivered — hurricane forecasts that pay for themselves many times over, the discovery that fine-particle air pollution shortens lives, Nobel-winning climate models, fisheries pulled back from collapse — and how all three came under threat at once in 2025-26. We tell it history-first, with the present-day fight as the climax, from the deck of an Alaska salmon boat whose season depends on the science. Weighing transformation against dismantling honestly, working from primary documents and reporting. Narrated by AI voices from sourced, human-reviewed research.