Oliver Morton
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275 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Sep
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And that will continue until the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is stabilised.
And at the moment, that looks like a world that's considerably warmer than today's and a world in which today's record sea surface temperatures become, you know, just the way it used to be back then.
Yes, if I haven't depressed you enough with this already, you can hear more about this on the Babbage podcast.
Thank you, Rosie.
To prevent a country from becoming a major transit port.
As of this morning, the 28th of July, the situation seems extremely finely balanced.
The Spanish authorities have talked about the next few hours being absolutely crucial because in the coming days, we're expecting to see an increase in temperatures as things get back into true heatwave territory.
And that could be very bad for the Fasnier, Bordeaux and those west and northwest of Madrid and Spain.
Well, it's at a different scale for the places where it's happening.
These aren't wildfires that would necessarily get noticed all that much in, say, Australia or Canada.
But it's illustrating a point that is actually applicable more or less all around the world, which is that fire seasons are getting longer.
The number of days of intense fire proneness, a very high fire weather index, are also going up.
And that means that you're going to be seeing more fires and bigger fire seasons.
But you're also seeing an increase in what some people sometimes call extraordinary fires.
Fires that leap out along one dimension or another of their sheer intensity or their size or the speed at which they spread or the amount of damage that they do.
So in 2019-20, we saw these extraordinary fires in...
Southeast Australia mainly, but also across a lot of the rest of Australia, which were called the Black Summer fires.
There were the extraordinary fires of 2023 in Canada, where the burning forest gave out four times as much CO2 as Canada produces by burning fossil fuels in a year.
And then last year, the fires in Los Angeles did more damage as recorded by insurance companies than any other fires that I think the world has ever seen.
Absolutely.
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