The Podcast about the business opportunities of addressing the challenges of extreme weather & climate change. Topics covered in this episode include: Sucking CO2 out of the air, Cimate change and fresh water, Future of the the weather enteprise, I’m breathing plastic!, Business opportunities of climate change

Business of Weather

Business of Weather - Episode 1

LIDAR, short for laser detection and ranging, is a surveying technology which combines 3D scanning and laser scanning. It is a versatile tool that measures the distance to a target by illuminating the target with laser light and then measuring the reflected light with a sensor.  

Its applications range from pollution monitoring, agriculture and archaeology, to digital mapping of building interiors, wind farm optimisation and guiding autonomous vehicles.

One leading player in the development and use of LIDAR technology is the greek company, Raymetrics.

Business of Weather spoke to the company’s founder, CEO and chairman,  Nikos Kontos, about the company about pollution monitoring and other applications for LIDAR technology.

Episode 2 – The versatility of LIDAR surveying technology

Business of Weather talks to Mary Glackin, President of the American Meteorological Society

Given what many experts agree is a mounting and serious climate emergency, the American Meteorological Society is, without doubt, a key influencer.

Its Annual Meeting is the world’s largest yearly gathering of the weather, water, and climate community and also attracts policy and decision makers from government and business.

But faced with a huge and growing body of evidence highlighting the central role of human activity in climate change, these are difficult times for the Society. While many US states have embraced the need to cut carbon emissions, a head of state who is an ardent climate change denier can only make the job of convincing the public of the need for urgent action a harder one.

Business of Weather spoke to Mary Glackin about the challenges that lay ahead. Mary is the current President of the American Meteorological Society and the former Vice President of Weather Business Solutions at the IBM subsidiary, The Weather Company …