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🗓️ 11 November 2022
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Right now, world leaders are gathering in Egypt at the COP27 climate conference to discuss what can be done about climate change...
The planet's environment is changing and the safe conditions in which we can live are at risk. But what is climate change? What's causing these changing weather patterns? And is there anything we can do about it?
Dan and Michael chat to experts to find out these answers and speak to climate activists on the frontline of the fight for a better future.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Mysteries of Science. I'm Dan and I'm the editor of Science of |
0:07.0 | Science and Nature, the Monthly magazine from the Team Behind the Week Junior. |
0:11.0 | And I'm Michael, the Junior Editor. On this show we explore all manner of strange and spooky phenomena from the Loch Ness Monster to whether or not ghosts exist. |
0:20.0 | But today we're going to be talking about something a bit more serious, a big topic which |
0:25.7 | you'll have heard a lot about, climate change, which is also sometimes referred to as the |
0:30.7 | climate crisis. |
0:31.7 | Now, as we speak, world leaders are meeting in Egypt for COP 27, which is a big meeting |
0:37.2 | organised by the United Nations |
0:38.6 | to discuss climate change and what we're going to do about it. So COP stands for the |
0:43.4 | conference of parties, and the 27 bit is, well, just because it's the 27th of such meeting. |
0:50.5 | Yes, some of you may remember COP 26, which was held last year in Glasgow. |
0:54.9 | Yeah, so as this is going on right now, we thought it was a great opportunity to explore one of the greatest mysteries of our time. |
1:03.8 | And an open question still, can we fix climate change? |
1:07.7 | In this episode, we'll be exploring what climate change is, what's causing it, |
1:11.5 | and most importantly, what we can do about it. This is mysteries of science. So Michael, climate |
1:19.6 | change is a big and, well, sometimes daunting topic. So where are we going to start with this? |
1:25.5 | Well, the first step in solving any problem is understanding what it is in the first place. So we've got going to start with this? Well, the first step in solving any problem is |
1:27.8 | understanding what it is in the first place. So we've got someone to help us explain what climate |
1:32.4 | change actually is. And some of you might recognize him off the telly. Hi there. My name's |
1:37.4 | Liam Dutton. I'm a weather presenter at Channel 4 News. My job involves researching as a meteorologist |
1:43.6 | to weather every day, |
1:44.9 | and then presenting it on the television to have a video to watch. |
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