in a way that puts the tropical pacific into a la nina state. so it s quite interesting, because what happens l in the atlantic, it can impact| the tropical pacific and it can have implications for the whole globe, including australia. - back here at imperial college london, i am with dr fredi otto again, she leads the world weather attribution group here, to get some final thoughts from you. what stands out for you from what we have seen, extreme weather wise, in the summer of the northern hemisphere this year? so what stood out for me this year were the wildfires. we have seen many, many heatwaves simultaneously in past years, 2018 for example, also 2019. but this year that has been combined with a drought, and in many cases, that led to wildfires on a scale that
so, there s an urgency there, isn t it? urgency of people s connection between the two things? yes, i think we can we can not only sort of show in a paper that climate change is happening, but we can connect that to our experience and our feelings. this is what climate change means. dr otto, thank you for now. we will come back to you later in the programme for some final thoughts. and also coming up, i ll be looking in even more detail about how that study of the uk heatwave and its link to climate change was done. world weather attribution scientists also studied this year s searing pre monsoon heatwave in india and pakistan, which affected millions of people. their verdict it was made 30 times more likely because of climate change. in pakistan in may, flooding from a rapidly melting glacier caused this bridge to collapse. panicked shouting. temperatures were from five to eight degrees above average
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