Process is also drumming the warming driving the warming of the seas and drives the cyclonic events you have seen, the hurricane that became a tropical storm when it came on land in south western california. world leaders have started arriving injohannesburg for a meeting of the brics nations brazil, russia, india, china, and south africa. these are pictures of china s leader xi jinping touching down ahead of proceedings starting tuesday. the summit will shine a light on the member nations links with the kremlin. russian president vladimir putin was supposed to attend the summit in person but the international criminal court has issued a warrant for his arrest and south africa would have been under pressure to extradite him. so putin will attend virtually instead. patrick gaspard is president and ceo of the centre for american progress and a former us ambassador to south africa. hejoined me earlier. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. we see that xi jinping is attending the summ
Earlier, we spoke with a former member of the environmental protection agency s national advisory committee michael k dorsey about the natural disasters hitting canada and the us. in the canadian situation we are dealing with increased drought, we are dealing with also sought of the mixture, the nexus of extreme weather events. the vast majority of these extreme events is really driven by the changing climate. we ve added, you know, over 400 ppm we ve added, you know, over 400 ppm of c02 into the atmosphere and this is producing extreme weather around the world, not just limited to canada, and its impacts are certainly not canadian only, but they had huge implications for us air quality of the past many months stop going to see more extreme weather like we are seeing in california and elsewhere on earth. the very fact that climate change is driving this
Japanese-American author Shizue Seigel has come back to the Central Coast decades after her family was pushed out by anti-Asian immigration laws.Now, she says she’s on a journey to expand the land’s historical narrative by holding writing workshops for creatives of all backgrounds to tell their stories.