The Long Hot Summer - Part Two

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4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This summer the Northern Hemisphere has been sweltering in unusually high temperatures. It has been hot from the Arctic to Africa. This has led to increased deaths, notably in Canada, and more wildfires, even in Lancashire and in Sweden. Can we say that this heatwave – and the extreme drought in Australia - is a result of climate change? Or is just part of the variable weather patterns we have on our planet? Roland Pease gets answers to these questions from the world’s leading climate and weather scientists. He picks apart the influences of the jet stream, El Niño and the Atlantic decadal oscillation from that of global warming. (Photo: Arctic Pack Ice near Svalbard, Norway. Credit: Bkamprath/Getty Images)

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Doleepa, and I'm at your service.
0:04.7	Join me as I serve up personal conversations
0:07.1	with my sensational guests.
0:08.9	Do a leap, interviews, Tim Cook.
0:11.2	Technology doesn't want to be good or bad.
0:15.0	It's in the hands of the Creator.
0:16.7	It's not every day that I have the CEO of the world's biggest company in my living room.
0:20.6	If you're looking at your phone more than you're looking in someone's eyes, you're doing the wrong thing.
0:26.0	Julie, at your service.
0:28.0	Listen to all episodes on BBC Sales. None of the challenges of our troubled and complex worlds loom so large as climate change.
0:41.0	Climate change is upon us. Climate change is upon us.
0:43.4	Climate change is one of the major issues of our time.
0:47.0	Everyone is impacted.
0:48.4	Politicians are engaged and this year we've seen good reasons for them to be so.
0:53.4	I want to talk about the European heat wave.
0:55.6	We've had wildfires, we've problems with crops.
0:58.1	The heat.
0:58.8	Extreme weather across the planet,
1:00.8	though even politicians understand you can't read too much into a one-off.
1:04.7	Now one year doesn't make a trend, but this does. In 2018 we've seen continental scale heat waves,
1:10.5	super typhoons, floods.
1:13.0	These cities got as much rainfall in half a day
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