Can science link extreme weather to climate change?
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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https://www.ft.com/content/65fa9d74-d971-4536-a411-c06d86d8de64
FT calculations of 20 Chinese billionaires show that their net worth has dropped by about $80bn since late June, ByteDance, the owner of short-video app TikTok, has revived a plan to go public, and Industry bosses are predicting a worldwide construction “supercycle” set to fuel demand for building materials. Plus, the FT’s climate reporter Camilla Hodgson explains how scientists are trying to link natural disasters to global warming.
Tech crackdown erases $80bn from the wealth of China’s top tycoons
https://www.ft.com/content/7e6f9a08-37be-4ab3-ae15-953533ab33b5
China’s ByteDance aims for Hong Kong IPO despite tech crackdown
https://www.ft.com/content/bacca56f-1da5-4721-90bf-a61383ab7eec
Construction ‘supercycle’ predicted on wave of government spending
https://www.ft.com/content/41574f1e-58ae-4b17-a1ea-991a46d70932?
Fires and floods: can science link extreme weather to climate change?
https://www.ft.com/content/fe4e658e-0473-4f98-b995-4606aefa90bc
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:01.6 | Today is Monday, August 9th, and this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:09.1 | Some of China's wealthiest people have gotten creamed |
| 0:12.0 | by Beijing's tech crackdown, but it hasn't deterred |
| 0:14.8 | by dance from reviving plans to go public. |
| 0:17.7 | Meanwhile, the construction sector industry bosses |
| 0:20.3 | are expecting good times to stick around for a while. |
| 0:23.6 | Plus, we've seen everything from wildfires |
| 0:25.8 | to intense rain this summer, but can we |
| 0:28.2 | link any of it directly to global warming? |
| 0:30.8 | What we're pretty certain of is that climate change |
| 0:33.6 | is making extreme weather events more common |
| 0:35.9 | and also more intense. |
| 0:37.2 | What's difficult, though, is making a connection |
| 0:39.6 | between a specific extreme event and climate change. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:47.6 | Beijing has put tech companies through a regulatory fire storm recently. |
| 0:50.6 | Earlier this year, the Chinese Communist Party's policymaker said |
| 0:53.6 | they wanted to improve oversight on companies listed overseas. |
| 0:56.6 | This reached havoc on the tech sector. |
| 0:58.8 | Companies like Tencent, Elibaba, and Dede Shushing |
| 1:01.8 | saw their share price drop. |
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