Rowan Hooper

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1,427 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6d ago

Rowan Hooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I'm Rowan Hooper. matched

Yeah, I looked at the forecast for Death Valley, California.

I've been there, it was hot.

125 Fahrenheit, that's 53 Celsius for this weekend.

But you don't need to be in the desert to get that kind of really extreme, appalling, dangerous temperatures.

Across the US, 70 million people will experience temperatures of up to 105 Fahrenheit, 40 Celsius at the moment.

From New Scientist, this is The World, The Universe and Us.

I'm Dr Rowan Hooper.

Hello.

Hey, guys.

Yeah, let's start with this latest heat dome over Europe.

It's an omega block, which is a kink in the jet stream shaped like the Greek letter omega.

And Alec, it is tempting to suggest that these kinks that we're getting are getting more common because of climate change.

But as with a lot of these things, we can't say that for sure, can we?

Michael, we talked recently about the impact of the climate crisis on our food and how that's going to really start affecting our food supply.

But that's just really one of the problems, isn't it?

So even if the vineyard themselves isn't burnt by a fire, like these huge dust smoke clouds will...

Yeah, can taint the wine.

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