We know our climate is changing, but not exactly what that means. How will global heating alter the currents of air, fire and water that govern Earthly weather? WILD WILD WEATHER takes Sarika Cullis-Suzuki deep into the science of those forces to understand why we are seeing more heat waves, cold snaps, hurricanes and other wild weather.

From a volcanic mountain in BC to Iceland to France, Sarika introduces us to scientists who study the systems that move energy around the planet: the jet stream carrying our air, the Atlantic current moving heat from south to north and the flows of lava underfoot.

Sarika learns that the rapidly warming Arctic is changing the global contrast between cold and hot that controls these currents and that, in turn, is altering the climate in unprecedented ways. The growing warmth is also having an impact scientist previously thought impossible: melting glaciers that are causing volcanoes to erupt.

While all these findings are worrisome, the knowledge is key to our survival. As one scientist tells Sarika, “we can win the adaptation war” if we know enough to prepare for the wild weather that’s coming.