The Forecasters

On air and under pressure, meteorologists worldwide become reluctant harbingers of doom as extreme weather intensifies. They are messengers on the front line of a changing atmosphere. For them, climate change is not a future scenario — it is what they read in the data every single day.

And yet, most of the time, they have only two minutes on air. Faced with censorship, denial and emotional tolls, they take different paths to amplify their message. They reinvent their jobs to make audiences anticipate what is already unfolding.

This is the story of scientists stepping up to confront the obstacles and restrictions imposed on them every day. They must confront a haunting question under darkening skies: How to tell the truth when the truth becomes unwelcome?