Summary
Hottest June on record, and July heat near 'impossible' without climate change.
Four records have been broken so far this year relating to the world’s climate. To discuss each of them, and understand how they could be linked, Adam is joined by climate editor Justin Rowlatt, as well as climate scientist Ed Hawkins.
Tim Leunig, former economic adviser to the then-chancellor Rishi Sunak is also on to go through green solutions on the table and who should pay for them.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, we're going to have a big ol' chat about climate change, |
| 0:07.9 | which means we're going to get a lot of value out of Justin Rolach, |
| 0:11.4 | climate editor, hello. |
| 0:12.6 | Sounds a bit over this. |
| 0:14.1 | No, no. |
| 0:15.9 | Imagine you just come round to my house for 45 minutes |
| 0:18.4 | of intense chat about work. |
| 0:20.2 | That's basically what it's going to be like. |
| 0:21.4 | First of all, though, so last time we spoke, |
| 0:23.0 | you were in Alacanti doing the extreme heat in Southern Spain. |
| 0:26.6 | Then imagine my surprise as I opened virtually |
| 0:29.8 | my daily mail to see a picture of you arriving back |
| 0:32.1 | at your house with your rucksack. |
| 0:33.2 | Yeah, how lovely. |
| 0:34.1 | They got a picture of me coming home. |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah, they put a photographer out like my house. |
| 0:38.2 | And they were making the point that should somebody |
| 0:41.1 | who reports on climate change and quite often says, |
| 0:44.4 | oh, air travel contributes a lot to carbon emissions |
| 0:47.9 | be flying to cover a story about weather. |
| 0:51.4 | What's your take on that? |
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