Can We Really Predict El Niños Impact on Our Planet? – with Meteorologist Tom Di Liberto

El Niño is being blamed for unheard of rainfall in the Gulf states, winter storms in the East Coast and record drought in the West. But are people mistaken in blaming unusual weather on the phenomenon known as El Niño? We explore what exactly it is with meteorologist Tom Di Liberto, who breaks down the misconceptions and implications about the weather, and how the pacific trade winds mixed with rising ocean temperatures are impacting us globally in this episode of Antidote hosted by Michael Parker.

Guest Bio

Tom Di Liberto is a meteorologist, scientist, and storyteller. Currently he works for Innovim as a meteorologist within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Climate Prediction Center (CPC). He also serves as a consulting meteorologist for NOAA’s Climate.gov, contributing articles about weather and climate events discussed from a climate perspective. In addition, he is a member of CPC’s El Niño–Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, team, which forecasts the strength of developing El Niños and La Niñas. Di Liberto is also an active science communicator. In 2013, he was named America’s first Science Idol after winning a competition held at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Science and Entertainment Exchange, where he provides weather and climate expertise to writers and producers in the television and film industries.