And current Un Special Envoy for Global Education gordon brown tells us he believes they can. Well speak to the lawyer who prosecuted slobodan milosevic. Also on the programme. Joe biden issues an Order Banning Private Equity and Venture Capital investments in some Chinese Technology companies, escalating washingtons efforts to Prevent Beijing from developing Cutting Edge Technology for its military. But what effect will it have on the American Economy . And will the uk follow suit . First the latest in a series of extreme weather events around the world that experts say have been intensified by Climate Change. Firefighters continue to battle wildfires in hawaii. At least 36 people have been killed. The popular tourist town of lahaina, on the island of maui, has been largely burnt to the ground. Us President Biden has approved a Disaster Declaration for the state of hawaii. That makes federal funding available for people in maui county. Us soldiers have joined search and Recovery Effor
Question- these wildfires? that is the question. this these wildfires? that is the question. this is these wildfires? that is the question. this is very - these wildfires? that is the l question. this is very strange weather behaviour. even though the island is a tropical typically wet island, there are a lot of dried grasses in now, especially there a a lot of dry invasive grasses that are fire prone and can carry fire when the conditions are right. a fire of the conditions are right. a fire of the severity and magnitude is really, really unusual. this is not natural and there is nothing normal about it. it is the confluence of the severe drought that hawaii is experiencing and the strong winds that hurricane dora has brought and when you put these things together you can actually get a hurricane fuelled wildfire. does the background warming of climate change thatis background warming of climate change that is putting all of these factors together in this strange way. you said t
For us to have stories about bad weather at this time of the year, that s because it is winter. is this normal weather behaviour, would you say? one thing we are seeing in recent years is less low overall thanks to climate change, obviously it is getting warmer in many areas like boston, but every so often, that increase in temperature allows us to have a bit more moisture in the air, so that when you get the blockbuster events, we get a bit more snow, because of all that extra moisture translates to more snowfall. i am right out of cape cod, massachusetts, whether winds were hurricane force, but behind me you can see about 50 or 60 centimetres worth of snowfall. i have been here a very long time and i can say this is probably our heaviest snow locally since 2005, and they were even a few reports of thunder snow. matthew, those of us, myself included, who actually prefer winter weather, might look in envy at all that snow and wind and cold but you ve got, but actually this can be life
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