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without further ado this is the naked scientist hello welcome to this

week's naked scientist the program that brings you the latest breakthroughs in

science technology and medicine I'm Chris Smith this week the mercury rises as

record temperatures are recorded across the world but what's driving the change

also ahead the sound of silence. We'll be finding out why scientists think it's

not just the absence of noise, we can actually perceive silence, and the Cambridge

students who are hoping to boldly go where no other amateur European rocket has ever been before. The world's warming at an alarming rate with climate experts suggesting that the

4th of July was the hottest day on earth in more than 100,000 years, and the El Nino weather phenomenon

is almost certainly making things worse.

The heat wave that sweeping Southern Europe at the moment has been so intense that the Italian Meteorological Society have dubbed it

Cerberus after the three-headed monster that features in Dante's Inferno.

Well I'm joined now by science communicator Roshan Salgado Darcy who's doing a PhD looking at climate communication.

So Roshan, what is causing this? What are the factors first?

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