Indian students, who are in Europe, might not be strangers to hot and humid weather considering the average temperature on normal days back home but say that the heatwave did have an effect on their day-to-day life.
fellow at oxford university s environmental change institute. we asked her about the link between climate change and the extreme heat we re seeing at the moment we re not entirely sure if climate change is specifically to blame for this heatwave but obviously in the recent past we have seen that climate change has caused heatwaves over the last four years so i think it s very likely that this is also going to be caused by climate change. it s important to understand the climate system is complicated and there are many different factors at play, so the combination of the heat that is coming in early and the drying and then all of these things combined is what actually makes it so challenging and difficult, and then of course the experience is quite extreme for people who aren t used to it as in the uk. andrew plant is in twycross zoo
all seeing. laura: doctor, the use of the air quotes doesn t make her points anymore convincing. boy, she has a lot of emotion, doesn t she? i think what you see most is passion and what we need in this debate is dispassionate discourse. brought to bear when you bring data. you ll find these floods are not increasing in some kind of strange rate. heat waves are not increasing. we have the data to show it. laura: on this idea of the fact that the science is settled, the science is not settled, correct? oh, my goodness. our ignorance of the climate system is enormous. if it were correct, the chart you saw would not be needed. what it choses we don t even know how the fundamental heat processes of the atmosphere