The Long Hot Summer

Discovery

BBC

Science, Technology

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This summer the Northern Hemisphere has been sweltering in unusually high temperatures. It’s 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, the El Nina and the Atlantic decadal oscillation from that of global warming. Picture: Sacramento River and valley lit by the Delta Fire in California, 2018, Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images

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0:31.0	This storm overnight we've seen this area battered by heavy winds and rains and
0:39.0	corn and rice fields have been damaged a lot of homes don't have any roofs anymore.
0:45.0	2018 has seen some remarkable weather.
0:48.0	This is the eyewall of Hurricane Florence which is passing
0:53.0	overwhelming to now and we're experiencing winds of 90
0:57.1	miles an hour absolutely torrential
1:00.0	typhoons hurricanes floods heat floods, heat waves, wildfires.
1:04.0	Sweeping across this forest in Sweden, one of dozens being fought here,
1:08.0	firefighters soaking ground that's seen no significant rain in several weeks.
1:13.0	And many scientists say there's a clear link to global warming.
1:16.0	It seems weird from the perspective of the climate of about a hundred years ago.
1:21.0	And if we use that as our benchmark,
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