Rowan Hooper
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1,494 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2d ago
Rowan Hooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
Because we think about insurance when about flood risk, but haven't really thought about it with fire risk as well.
But of course.
And yes, so that's yet another issue.
It is terrifying to see that massive thunderhead like that.
But about unpredictability, one thing I wanted to ask about is the kind of political response to this.
And obviously, it's an emergency, especially in Spain and France, a massive emergency at the moment.
The prime minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, said this climate emergency is exceeding every threshold and scale that scientists have long warned all of Spain and Europe about.
And that seemed to me like a little bit of an excuse.
He was trying to make an excuse saying, oh, we didn't know this was coming.
We've been caught out.
I wonder what you made of that.
Time for a quick break.
The idea that gut microbes can affect our minds was long met with skepticism, but no more.
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