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TyskySour: Extreme Floods And Fires

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4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In the past two weeks we’ve seen heatwaves and wildfires in North America and extreme floods in Europe, India and China. We speak to climate scientist Simon Lewis about just how bad this could get. With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.

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0:00.0

In just the past two weeks, we've seen extreme floods in Europe, India and China and

0:10.5

heat waves and wildfires in North America.

0:14.0

As now, no question, this is related to climate change, that's no longer up for debate.

0:20.8

Instead, the focus has turned to how bad and how quickly this could all get.

0:26.1

I'll be asking a top climate scientist on tonight's show.

0:30.7

Also, I'll speak to an epidemiologist about falling case rates, the COVID development that's

0:35.4

taken everyone by surprise and will discuss Labour's hypocrisy on higher and fire and anti-vaxx

0:41.8

extremists in London. I'm joined throughout the show by Ash Sarkar. How are you doing?

0:46.9

I'm okay, considering the bottom of my road turned into the Poseidon adventure.

0:51.8

Yesterday, I'm okay. Your own house didn't get flooded.

0:56.8

You haven't had anything ruined that was on the floor?

0:59.1

No, no, no, and in Shaila, it may stay that way.

1:01.4

But my road is parallel to like a main road which goes down towards a big junction.

1:07.1

And when it's raining, you can just see it turn into a stream going downhill.

1:12.4

It's a very, very slight incline and then there's a bit near a railway bridge and it was just like

1:18.1

knee deep. I've lived in this area for a really long time. I'm really familiar with this area.

1:23.3

I've never seen anything like that before.

1:25.9

Well, tonight you're going to find out whether this is going to be regular and worse every year.

1:32.0

A cheery thought. Tweet your comments on the hashtag, if you have anything to say about the stories

1:36.8

we are covering tonight or comment under the video, especially if you're watching this back on

1:42.5

YouTube. Of course, if you have not already, do hit that subscribe. But we've known for a long

1:48.8

time that climate change makes extreme weather events more likely. And this has never been

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