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but economists are increasingly pointing to evidence that it is also having an affect on inflation as crops fail, wine grapes shrivel and vegetables dry. and it s got a name. climateflation. here s ben. a brutally hot summer for the planet and hot prices, too. is there a link? some grocery data today suggests uk food price inflation is starting to abate. yet there are warnings that the painful spike in food prices we ve seen over the past year has been partially driven by global warming. some have termed it climateflation. it s an argument that global warming is already contributing to our cost of living pressures. what s the evidence for it? a big driver in the spike of global food prices last year was manifestly the russian invasion of ukraine, which curtailed exports of grain and fertiliser from the country, which is responsible for a large
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just a gray screen, that is what they are dealing with there. wildfires in canada keep burning and sending smoke down into the midwest. air quality alerts they are in effect for several great lakes states. we have cnn s adrienne broaddus who is in chicago for us. these pictures, unbelievable, coming out of milwaukee where you can barely see the stadium where the brewers are normally playing. when is this expected to abate? reporter: it s expected to dissipate by tomorrow at midnight, that s central standard time. brianna, that s according to the national weather service, but if you are here in chicago walking downtown not only can you see it, if we move positions you can see the smoke filling the sides of the building. you can smell it. you can taste it. i spoke a short time ago with juan rojas, a lung doctor here in town at rush university medical center and he says the air quality here in chicago right now ranks among the world s worst. he s been practicing here for a
strawberries? but fear not, the british growers association, whose members provide about 95% of the berries we find in supermarkets, says that this year s fruit will be bigger, juicier and sweeter than past years. together make up the biggest proportion of all food sold in this country, a whopping 28% is the market share. that accounts for a lot of money. £1.7 billion. of course, i have been filling up the opponent here. it would be a shame not to when you come to a strawberry farm and you have the run of the place. let s speak to the farmer who runs this strawberry farm. this is todd. is that reflective of your experience, what i havejust described about the weather and the impact on the harvest? impact on the harvest? absolutely, es. you impact on the harvest? absolutely, yes- you have impact on the harvest? absolutely, yes. you have done impact on the harvest? absolutely, yes. you have done that impact on the harvest? absolutely, yes. you have done that abate - impact on the