John Gibbons

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1,007 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 2d ago

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The Last Word with Matt Cooper · Fish In Irish Waters Move North Due To Climate Change · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

Now, as you can imagine, at those temperatures, everything would die.

So we're very fortunate that the oceans are cleaning up our mess.

They're soaking up this gigantic excess of energy.

And to translate that energy into something that is almost visible, if you can think of the power of a Hiroshima-style blast,

The oceans are accumulating energy at the rate of 12 Hiroshimas per second, every second of every minute of every year, which amounts to about 370 million Hiroshimas per year.

It's otherwise known as 23 zetajoules of excess energy.

And this is being loaded into our oceans, and it's actually warming, Matt, down as far as 2,000 metres.

Yeah, it's very, very dangerous.

The first thing to say, Matt, is that temperatures across Europe are currently running at about three degrees centigrade above the summer average up to 2020.

So this is a shocking jump in summer temperatures.

I think the June 2026 is the hottest June ever recorded in continental Europe.

And of course, what it's doing in simple terms, it's turning Europe into a tinderbox.

Now, I think we've all heard about these firestorms as well, where you've effectively fire creating its own weather systems, including lightning.

This is fire systems rising 10, 15 kilometres into the sky, almost to the edge of the stratosphere, rising straight through the atmosphere.

So these are almost like nuclear bombs going off and rising up and creating their own lightning storms.

So the...

Essentially, all this additional energy that we keep talking about is now expressing itself.

And I should say, Matt, just to explain what we mean by additional energy, the Earth's surface temperature on average has risen by just under 1.5 degrees.

It popped over it in 2024.

It fell back slightly in 2025.

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