John Gibbons
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873 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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So the real issue in in cities is where you don't have adequate greenery and cover.
So for example, uh in in Paris for over the last decade, uh
They they have undergone a huge transitional program to climate proof the city, including planting tens, if not hundreds of thousands of trees.
And they have a local cooling effect.
And you see it, you know, that the so-called leafy suburbs, Matt.
People like to live near trees.
It's always the mark of a neglected neighborhood where you don't see trees.
And what we're going to need to see in order to keep our cities and towns and our streets cool.
cool is to as many trees as possible because they're they're excellent.
First of all, obviously they provide shelter, uh and second second of all, they also uh release water vapour into the air, which has a cooling effect.
So so yes, the the the heat island effect is real, uh, but there are ways of moderating it.
However, simply having everybody out in the countryside creates other problems as as we've discussed on many occasions here.
Yeah, well first of all the first thing to say about the El Nino uh
effect is that it is a natural phenomenon.
It's part of a I suppose a pair.
There's the El Nino, which tends to deliver warmer years, and there's the La Nina, which tends to deliver cooler years.
So to to briefly explain where they come from, as I say, they're a natural cycle and what happens essentially is that there's an upwelling of warm water in the eastern Pacific region during an El Nino event.
That warm
Water releases colossal amounts of heat energy into the atmosphere.
That energy is then transferred all around the world.
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