is lesley hughes, a professor in biology at macquarie university in sydney and one of the founding members of australian thinktank the climate council. it is wonderful to have you on the programme. just to give a sense of the backdrop of all of this, the hottest ever recorded temperature. what is the reason behind this? well, the road is in a long term global warming trend and while average temperatures are often what is recorded, long term also means that the incidence of extreme events like hottest of her records are also inevitable and that is what we are seeing in western australia at the moment. ., ., , moment. and part of the conditions there riaht moment. and part of the conditions there right now moment. and part of the conditions there right now and moment. and part of the conditions there right now and all moment. and part of the conditions there right now and all our- moment. and part of the conditions there right now and all our people l there right now and all our pe