20s but we saw 30 degrees in chertsey. i think we saw 30 as well in central london. that is going to lead to a pretty humid night to come. in fact, lead to a pretty humid night to come. infact, lows lead to a pretty humid night to come. in fact, lows for some into the high teens, perhaps 20 degrees in london first thing tomorrow morning. there will be a beautiful sunrise, some early morning sunshine but it won t last because a weather front will move in from the south west and this could quite literally raining on our parade for tomorrow. some heavy, thundery downpours are expected. it is not a guarantee and very hit and miss some of these showers but if you catch them, they could be quite intense. look at the bright greens and yellows, that is the intensity of the rainfall. a of rain, large hail and thunder as they quickly sweep north and east. into the afternoon, a bit fresher to the west, still the risk of some showers, still some heat potentially into east anglia with 29
to happen in case an applicant submits a submission for an exploitation. decades of disagreement make the next steps are unclear but if no agreement is made, no rules formally set, authorities are required to start considering and provisionally approving mining work anyway. let s speak to marine biologist and conservationist tom the blowfish hird and gerard barrons, ceo and chairman of the metals company. tom, what worries you about this? i think it s been made fairly clear already in that report, we are talking about an environment that is more alien to us than the surface of the moon. and we arejust more alien to us than the surface of the moon. and we are just going more alien to us than the surface of the moon. and we arejust going down there with a litter picker and getting the occasional nodule here and there. we re about putting down mining equipment the size of combine harvesters if not larger that are
governing how those resources could be exploited but it requires consensus across the member nations. more than two decades have passed without a final agreement on commercial mining. there is good reason for that. marine scientists have highlighted that dredging up these nodules, creating plumes of sediment, poses risks to a little understood habitat. there are animals thatjust couldn t exist anywhere else on earth, they are really special, really unusual. it s also the case that we are still discovering that environment because it s so hard to get to. so, you know, those animals down there, and the algae, may well be producing chemicals that we produce for medicine, for example. and if we destroy them before we even know what they are, then you lose all of that potential benefit. in an environment which changes very slowly, helen says any disturbance could take hundreds if not thousands of years to recover from. mining these metals on landward of course also cause environmental
indiscriminately chewing up the sea bed. i can t imagine in anyway that makes good sense in an environment thatis makes good sense in an environment that is poorly understood, poorly explored. but the one thing we do know about it is that it works on a timescale that we died. it works on thousands of years, if not tens of thousands of years, if not tens of thousands of years, if not tens of thousands of years. so trying to have that kind of impact in such a short period of time and expecting it to be forgotten and to have no major long term effect, it s ridiculous. major long-term effect, it s ridiculous. ridiculous. gerrard, it s ridiculous, ridiculous. gerrard, it s ridiculous, what - ridiculous. gerrard, it s ridiculous, what would | ridiculous. gerrard, it s. ridiculous, what would you ridiculous. gerrard, it s- ridiculous, what would you say to tom? ~ ., ., , .,, ridiculous, what would you say to tom? ~ ., . , .,, ., tom? well, we ve got a problem on our hands. tom? well,
has taken a potentially millions of years to develop. has taken a potentially millions of years to develop. yes. if you write, we don t know years to develop. yes. if you write, we don t know what years to develop. yes. if you write, we don t know what the environmental impact could be. if you wreck that. it could take thousands and thousands of years to restore it. let s take a step back. we do know a lot about let s take a step back. we do know a lot about the let s take a step back. we do know a lot about the impacts and that s why we ve lot about the impacts and that s why we ve been lot about the impacts and that s why we ve been spending hundreds of millions we ve been spending hundreds of millions of dollars with the leading research millions of dollars with the leading research institutions around the world, research institutions around the world, to research institutions around the world, to baseline the environment. last year world, to baseline the envi