The Weather Channel Flooded Charleston to Make You Give a Damn

The Weather Channel Flooded Charleston to Make You Give a Damn

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https://www.wired.com/story/weather-channel-climate-change-immersive-mixed-reality/

Not enough people care enough about climate change. It's too remote, too removed from everyday life. Even those who acknowledge its enormity often don’t see what it has to do with themselves personally. So maybe this will finally break through: The Weather Channel’s immersive climate change experience, which puts you deep inside an inexorably changed world.

The latest in a series of roughly two-minute mixed reality segments that place meteorologists inside extreme weather events—you may remember this gripping look at storm surges from last fall—debuted Tuesday morning. While climate change peppers the channel's regular coverate, this is its most directly direct examination yet of its potential impact. And by far its most tangible.