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From Hurricanes Irma to Jose to Maria, an active atlantic storm season has ravaged wide swaths of the Caribbean. The storms themselves receive wall-to-wall media coverage, but when they pass, the story of reconstruction quickly drops from the front page, and post-storm assessments become the stuff of academics and city planners, not the public at large. And yet, climate scientists tell us the storms will get worse. Should we be using natural disasters as an entry point into a discussion about climate change and adaptation? To help us answer those questions are: Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Rachel Cleetus, lead economist and climate policy manager at the Union of Concerned Scientists If you enjoy this discussion, please follow us on Twitter @WakeOnAir. To share feedback with us, send us an email to wake@talkmedianews.com. Recorded September 22, 2017.  Hosted by Luke Vargas.