Rowan Hooper
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1,494 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4d ago
Rowan Hooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The World, the Universe and Us · The Science of Football: Inside the 2026 World Cup · 2 Jul 2026
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Thanks to our wonderful panellists, Charlotte Cowie, Holly Bridge, Ian Graham.
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Thanks to you all for coming.
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Thanks to those listening.
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Thanks very much.
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Yeah, El Niño is a natural climate event, but global heating will amplify the impacts and it could also make the phenomenon itself stronger, much stronger and more far-reaching.
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And I'm Dr Owen Hooper.
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Now, I just said El Niño is this natural climate event, but our reporter Michael LePage has been reporting on studies recently showing that because of the climate crisis, the impacts of El Niño, even standard El Niños, will be worse.
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All right, well, yeah, we're going to want to get to those further field effects because that's something a bit odd, I think.
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Well, it's becoming a bit odd.
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And what about this super El Nino?
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Because we've heard there's a 63% chance that it will be a super El Nino.
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And that's not a scientific term.
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And certainly Godzilla is not a scientific term.
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Definitely not a scientific term.
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So what does it have to do to be, you know, called a super El Nino?
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OK, so that really is a big one.
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If a normal El Nino is above 0.5 degrees Celsius, then a super El Nino really is quite a big step up.
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What about the predictions, Emily, that global heating itself is making El Ninos worse and maybe more frequent?
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I want to talk about, ask you about the financial impact so that we don't sort of, just so that we keep an eye on that because
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