HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

Business

4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Our planet is warming, and many parts of the world are not equipped to accurately predict the heat waves, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires and floods that are becoming more frequent and intense due to the changing climate.

Former Israeli Air Force pilot Shimon Elkabetz knows the importance of good weather forecasts — they can literally mean the difference between life and death. In 2016, he co-founded Tomorrow.io to improve the weather data available across the world.

This week on How I Built This Lab, Shimon talks with Guy about his company’s work to help businesses, governments and individuals make better decisions in response to increasingly volatile weather. Plus, Shimon recounts some of the challenges he’s faced in fundraising for ‘hard technology’ and stresses the importance of building climate change solutions that generate immediate impact.

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0:00.0	What is actually going on with the economy nowadays?
0:04.4	The price of gas, inflation?
0:06.5	Are we in a recession?
0:08.2	I'm Jeff Quo, co-host of NPR's Planet Money.
0:11.2	Come along with our super team of econ experts
0:14.1	as we delve into the stories that show you
0:16.2	how the world really works.
0:18.6	That's Planet Money from NPR.
0:23.8	Hello and welcome to How I Built This Lab.
0:26.1	I'm Guy Roz.
0:27.5	So we know that over the next few decades,
0:29.8	all of us who live on this planet
0:31.5	are going to face very volatile weather at some point.
0:35.3	Most of us already have crazy heat waves,
0:38.0	perifal hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, floods.
0:42.2	And while all of these things are scary
0:44.0	and at least for me anxiety inducing,
0:47.2	I do take some comfort in knowing
0:49.2	that our technology is getting a lot better
0:51.7	at predicting these things.
0:53.3	And it means that in the coming decades,
0:55.4	we will start to alter our behavior days,
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