the world, from record—breaking heatwaves, floods and also wildfires even to the north of the arctic circle 2019 in terms of what's going on at the poles? fires are a big thing throughout the globe. and, of course, they manifest themselves by things like black carbon in ice cores. and we can actually trace how those have changed over the decades. over the past 800,000 years in the longest antarctic ice cores, we can see that co2 levels are very strongly coupled with temperature over successive glacial, interglacial cycles. thank you so much, julian. and thinking about how we use historic ice data to look forward into the future, a little bit later in the programme i'll be back looking at some newly available digitised ice data that is helping climate scientists map what could potentially happen to our climate in the future. now for some of your weather watcher pictures, starting with these scenes from november, when parts of england suffered severe flooding in a deluge which contributed to south yorkshire, nottinghamshire and lincolnshire seeing their wettest autumn on record. but the autum

the motion and his dogs will head into norway's arctic circle for the 1st leg. ice cold winds and temperatures as low as 40 degrees below 0 celsius will push them to their limits. regular breaks will be necessary the physical strain is enormous and the dogs need to recover. mental concentration is also crucial for both man and dog. after 5 and a half hours and j.s. and his dogs reach the 1st checkpoint invites. they've managed around 70 kilometers . and it was quite a relaxed 1st leg the dogs found their rhythm after about 20 kilometers of course it wasn't easy the quicker they lie down now and have a rest the quicker we can recover. and then we'll say. the brakes are just as important in the race as the long runs too little sleep for the dogs and the musher can have dramatic consequences. while unfair sets off again after 4 hours rest over sled dog races are taking the 1st injured dogs out of the event. andrea says no such problems on the 2nd leg he makes some real progress. on checkpoint always and on the toss flew out of the checkpoint and have pushed themsel

the norwegian arlen specter in the arctic circle as the back of beyond the frigid climate isn't ideal for plants but a man from sunny florida did the impossible and started growing fresh produce there . this is not a u.f.o. it's a greenhouse inside it drops to minus 20 degrees celsius during the dark polar night only when the polar day begins will benjamin vidmar see things growing here we have some days you know with the during the midnight sun there's sun in theory 24 hours a day so it just moves around in the sky and it can get like $2530.00 degrees and here i really like to do some root vegetables carrots potatoes would be nice. finally a bit of sunlight and darkness prevails for months in winter it's minus $25.00 degrees celsius the tundra here is permanently frozen there are more polar bears and fall apart than people of all places benjamin did mark rose food here the world's northernmost settlement. this one i think looks good too and then this 13 stuart the 4th one is on the favors it's an experiment together with his colleague benjamin works in what they call their lab the se

are to the arctic circle now where neither snow nor i stopped $135.00 drivers from participating in this year's arctic lapland rally in finland including formula one driver terry brought us well the race covered a total of 201 kilometers drivers that have battled through extreme conditions the snow made for a poor visibility of the ice created slippery roads causing some drivers to lose total control both us finished 2nd with mercedes in the driver's championship last season only banished to come in. are you watching your videos coming up next to business africa with my colleague monica jones and i'll see you again tomorrow. what secrets lie dealings will. discover new adventures in 360 degrees. to explore an aging world heritage site. w world heritage 360.

it stretches across norway, sweden, finland and russia, way above the arctic circle.he far north of finland is the home of the sami, europe's only indigenous people, who still live off the land. but the life of the sami people is changing. climate change is affecting the arctic more than any other part of the earth. you can't rely on that you know how nature acts or how animals act because everything seems to be changing. the melting ice is opening up opportunities for shipping routes and there is talk of a new railway. it's the worst nightmare we are facing at the moment. which could threaten the sami people's way of life. how can you put a price tag for a culture? we have come to lapland to talk to sami women about the challenges they face. nature gives if we give back. we can't just take. anna comes from a family of sami reindeer herders who still make a living off the land. it's the start of the calving season and anna is checking up on the reindeer with eero, a finnish relative. the reindeer are about to give birth. these are extra feed pellets needed for the mot

waters off northern norway from the fishing village to gunnison around 500 kilometers north of the arctic circle they're shipped all over the world. here the freshly caught crabs are tagged and kept in huge chains until they're ready for shipping we treat groves. very good here like a 5 star hotel when tribes come here they don't but they don't come 1st they get relaxed to see him here they're getting the. good quality water inside and we change them once twice every day to make sure the big. i have everything all they need so they can be fresh i live a good quality. dick hosts crab feasts for tourists he catches the dinner himself in special crab traps using fresh fish meat as bait. car of the goals of the crabs we catch range between $3.00 and $3.00 and a half kilograms so if you've got $200.00 of them you can just imagine how heavy that is not true and they take up lots of space because they're so big. it's not so much their weight as their huge water resistance that we have to overcome. when king crab can weigh up to 17 kilos with a lake span of up to one metre 18. investigations originated

come back to defeat the tennessee titans and seal a spot in their 1st super bowl since 970. 3 the arctic circle now where neither snow nor ice stopped $135.00 drivers from participating in this year's arctic lapland rally in finland including formula one driver. the race covered a total of 201 kilometers drivers had to battle through extreme conditions as you see there the snow made for poor visibility and the ice created slippery roads holding some drivers to lose total control who finished 2nd with her sadie's in the driver's championship last season only managed to come in 9 this time. well here's a reminder of those top stories we're following for you chinese health officials have confirmed the coronavirus can be transmitted from person to person raising fears of an epidemic the virus has killed 3 people so far it's infected more than 200 the european union's top diplomat joins at the well says that the e.u. will refocus one of its naval missions to help of holding a new an arms embargo on the war torn libya. that's after he chaired a meeting of e.u. foreign ministers in brussels you're wat

there were scorching heatwaves across europe with unusually high temperatures in the arctic circle as well. 0ne researcher told us he was concerned about the trend of increasingly hotter summers. this is worrying because this is a new level of temperature extreme, and the regional impacts of that are likely to be unprecedented in some regions. so we are likely to see things that we have not seen in over the hundred years of observational records. there was another threat to our climate from the most unlikely of places — bizarrely, from the sources that are supposed to be helping to save the planet — renewables. these, like all electricity networks, use a gas called sf6 in their switches and relays for safety reasons. this is what would happen if they didn't. but the gas that keeps us safe is harming the climate. it's much more damaging than carbon dioxide and it's leaking out into the atmosphere. matt mcgrath discovered that the problem is getting much worse because of the increased use of sf6 in the growing number of renewable energy electricity networks. this new wind farm, being bu

expose the arctic sea to day ha for the optics he is exposed already so what what you have is the arctic circle is now heating up at $2.00 to $3.00 times the rate of the rest of the planet now when is that a problem 1st of all greenland is right there next to the arctic sea when all of the greenland ice melt of sea levels globally will rise by 7 meters 7 meters means . indefensible even a couple of meat. is in defense. with before the ice core data came out that showed us that it was real climate change is real. did you see the fact that it was manmade climate change 3000000 years is nothing compared to the life of the planet you see direct correlations here that presumably the man in the white house he wanted to buy greenland the other day doesn't based on your experience as chief scientific advisor this has absolutely no doubt in my body that the warming up of the planet which is very real the rising sea levels which are very real all of these effects due to 2 things one is removing forests in order to plant. agricultural activity the 2nd thing is discovery of fossil fuel burning them to crea

they've been to 11 countries in a month, everywhere from the arctic circle to southern italy.of them is more happy. >> jesse: emotional support ferret. >> greg: we are ferret balanced. >> jesse: that's a good one. set your dvrs, never miss an episode of "the five." >> bret: good evening, breaking tonight within the past few minutes, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says he does not have the votes at this hour to block the calling of witnesses and the president's impeachment trial in the u.s. senate. that is what he told g.o.p. senators late this afternoon. the, coming as the president's defense team concludes its opening presentation. let's get the latest from two correspondents, mike emanuel on capitol hill. good evening. speak of "the wall street journal" first to report that mitch mcconnell is telling his republican senators he does not have the votes to block witnesses. it is not entirelyle

we have whole villages north of the arctic circle that are wiped out. every single person died. and you have communities that are largely safe. there is no rhyme or reason. again, i think that is why the work of the epidemiologists has been so exciting and interesting. yes, inside the united states, it strange in the ways that being poor did not necessarily mean you would die at a higher rate, but it certainly meant you would be much less comfortable during that process. and that the horrors of poverty would create kinds of horrors for the family as caregivers and for the family as those who were trying to do the right thing for the sick person in their household. >> in your research work, did you run across any information which might lead this to have been biological warfare? dr. bristow: oh, no. but i did come across an entire folder of people who thought it was. in new york city. this german company. you got it. hello. [laughter] others talked about seeing u-boats off the coast and they are sure that's how the virus got in. secretary baker, lots of material written to the pr

they needed western technology to explore the arctic circle. if they couldn't get more oil and gas they were going to go broke. they needed those sanctions broke. that explains all those goddamn meetings. >> basically it explains their desperation. russia's only got one game to play, he didn't in part because he likes what he can do with oil and gas. he likes the way he can use it as a weapon around the world. but he also wanted to have complete control of it, so he consolidated all the power and the oil and gas industry in his own country under his own control. he's got his henchman running the russian gas and oil industry and they're terrible at it. geologically russia is running out of the easy to get oil and gas. they now need to be doing this more hi-tech stuff but they've got these terribly, terribly run companies and they need to be able to use western expertise and they can't get it because of the sanctions on them because of putin's gangster behavior. and that just -- i mean putin is strategic but he's short-term strategic and in the l

public health were mosquitoes in the tropics could be carrying malaya and as far north as the arctic circlell be compartmentalized at all. he could be escaped no matter who you were our heart healthy you were. parts of the planet will no matter who you are your life will be impacted because it's all all-encompassing and universal. that's to say it won't just impact us through extreme weather it will change our politics and geopolitics it will really shake up our sense of our place in nature and relationship to history and sense of capitalism and technology and the real the third is about the severity of change. this has changed a little bit over the last year or two since i started working on this book. up until then he really didn't hear about any science projecting scenarios north of two degrees celsius. scientists call that level. she and the island nations call it genocide. most people when they talk about it would say we have to do everything we can to avoid two days. that meant at least people like me i should say me, i thought that meant it was about worst-case scenario. but actually