Data, extreme weather and climate change
The role data plays in climate attribution - and why we don’t always have it
Recent global headlines have been dominated by record temperatures in parts of Europe, North America and Asia. As extreme weather events have happened for decades, how are links to climate change made?
In this programme we look at how scientists use data to draw climate conclusions and hear how that data isn’t always available. We focus particularly on severe flooding earlier this year in part of Central Africa. With Joyce Kimutai, principal meteorologist and climate scientist at the Kenya Meteorological Department and researcher at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College.
Presenter: Kate Lamble
Producers: Nathan Gower, Jon Bithrey
Editor: Simon Watts
Production Co-ordinator: Brenda Brown
Sound Engineer: Graham Puddifoot
(landslide destroyed homes in a remote mountainous area of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo on May 9 2023. Credit: Djaffar Sabiti/BBC Images)
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- Sat 29 Jul 202304:50GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa, Europe and the Middle East & West and Central Africa
- Sat 29 Jul 202310:50GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & Europe and the Middle East only
- Sun 30 Jul 202308:50GMTBBC World Service West and Central Africa
- Sun 30 Jul 202310:50GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa, Europe and the Middle East & West and Central Africa
- Sun 30 Jul 202322:50GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
- Sun 30 Jul 202323:50GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa & BBC Afghan Radio
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