sweltering temperatures in spain and dangerous wildfires in greece. millions have struggled through powerful heatwaves around the world in recent days. now scientists are poring over a run of climate records that have not only been broken, but smashed, and alarm bells are ringing. it s true to say that the models, the climate models that we have, do a very good job of predicting the climate system, but in the kind of larger scale. so, the fact that we re seeing the world warming because of greenhouse gases is not unexpected. but seeing some of these records being broken, you know, these marine heatwaves in the north atlantic, the severe decrease in antarctic sea ice was not expected, and is something that we re going to have to work to try and understand. and this is why they re worried. for decades, the global average temperature has been getting higher and higher. then, injuly this year, it broke through 17 degrees for the first time. the record for the hottest day on earth fell notj
thank you so much for that. it comes as leading scientists have told the bbc they are concerned by the recent run of new climate records being set saying the speed and timing of them is unprecedented. some fear we re already witnessing worst case scenarios. georgina rannard explains. sweltering temperatures in spain and dangerous wildfires in greece. millions have struggled through powerful heatwaves around the world in recent days. now scientists are poring over a run of climate records that have not only been broken, but smashed, and alarm bells are ringing. it s true to say that the models, the climate models that we have, do a very good job of predicting the climate system, but in the kind of larger scale. so, the fact that we re seeing the world warming because of greenhouse gases is not unexpected. but seeing some of these records being broken, you know, these marine heatwaves in the north atlantic, the severe decrease in antarctic sea ice was not expected, and is something tha
of new climate records being set, saying the speed and timing of them is unprecedented. some fear we re already witnessing worst case scenarios. georgina rannard explains. sweltering temperatures in spain and dangerous wildfires in greece. millions have struggled through powerful heatwaves around the world in recent days. now scientists are poring over a run of climate records that have not only been broken, but smashed, and alarm bells are ringing. it s true to say that the models, the climate models that we have, do a very good job of predicting the climate system, but in the kind of larger scale. so, the fact that we re seeing the world warming because of greenhouse gases is not unexpected. but seeing some of these records being broken, you know, these marine heatwaves in the north atlantic, the severe decrease in antarctic sea ice was not expected, and is something that we re going to have to work to try and understand. and this is why they re worried. for decades, the global avera
as liveable as possible. let s get more on this with daniela schmidt professor of earth sciences at the university of bristol. what do you make of these climate events we have been seeing over the past few weeks? the sheer extent of those events, the heat we see in several continents, the warming of the ocean, are a larger scale than we would have expected. how concerned should we be about them? they sure as very clearly that our interference with the climate system, and when it combines with natural climate variability, as previously introduced, really accelerate the warming and bring those events to us earlier than anticipated. what are the impact on humans and animals of these temperatures? what
and alarm bells are ringing. it s true to say that the models, the climate models that we have, do a very good job of predicting the climate system, but in the kind of larger scale. so, the fact that we re seeing the world warming because of greenhouse gases is not unexpected. but seeing some of these records being broken, you know, these marine heatwaves in the north atlantic, the severe decrease in antarctic sea ice was not expected, and is something that we re going to have to work to try and understand. and this is why they re worried. for decades, the global average temperature has been getting higher and higher. then, injuly this year, it broke through 17 degrees for the first time. the record for the hottest day on earth fell notjust once, but three times in a week. and it s notjust the land that s hot. the oceans, which take up most of the world s heat, are seeing unprecedented temperatures. the north atlantic and seas off the uk coast are up to five degrees hotter than average