imperial college london is home to the grantham institute, which is the central hub of world weatherentists around the world, whose aim is to deliver rapid analysis of extreme weather and how much more likely it is because of climate change. well, with me now is dr fredi 0tto, who leads the world weather attribution group. i want to ask first of all, the most important question is what did you learn about the link between that uk heatwave and climate change? i think the main results from that study were that this heatwave would have been four degrees cooler, if it would've happened at the beginning of the industrial revolution — or in other words, that a heatwave like this has been made at least ten times more likely because of human—induced climate change. so, basically, we would not have seen a heatwave like this if it wasn't for climate change. how are you able to do an analysis and come up with the results so quickly? because i can remember the time when it would take months, even sometimes years, to find the link between climate change and extreme weather and yet this, your stud

sierra bow, who is a visiting research fellow at the center for environmental policy at the imperial college london. welcome to the program. now as we just heard from our report from an dot com, people love their week by get now at a time when food security is on the thread should africans consider adapting their tates and the taste and opt for other available food crops. thank you very much. to me, thank you for having well, i mean diets of have evolved over time dias will always continue to go into the future. so the senegalese who have a particular who are required, so i guess we'll alter their taste into the future. so it's, it's a moot question, it has to happen, and it will happen whether or not it's forced on us externally or we demanded internally, considering africa has so much arable land. why is the continent struggling to feed itself? so that's, that's about a complicated question. however, when we think about the merit of challenges, that it takes to, to be competitive, global in food and agriculture, which is of course, a $1010.00 trillion dollar proposition. there are a few th

i internationally, i did a moon day event in london, imperial college london, where i also teach up in july grady to see as of there i was recently and now in saudi arabia. ready great enthusiasm. ready everywhere i go a so i think there's a palpable sense of returning to space. that's what we shared. there are and always will be critics of course, who don't see the bigger picture and are only concerned about the short term cost. let's talk of nasa using the moon as a kind of launch pad to mas is that's actually possible. sure. you know if, if you were gonna take a really big voyage and let's say that you're leaving from, from the u. k. to circumnavigate the glove you, you might want to take your, your boat out on a little right. the canary islands 1st, you know, be before you headed for cape horn. and i think that nasa sees that the ability to get humans to deep space again and put them sustainably on the moon for a long period of time. the apollo missions were great. we were only there for hours and a couple uses 2 days on the surface of the man, i'm going to mars you have to be ther

let's get more now with peter openshaw, professor of experimental medicine at imperial college.utumn and another ultimate living with covid. will this vaccination programme be different this time? yes vaccination programme be different this time? , , ., , this time? yes it will be a bit different in _ this time? yes it will be a bit different in that _ this time? yes it will be a bit different in that there - this time? yes it will be a bit different in that there are - this time? yes it will be a bit - different in that there are modified vaccines on the way which are going to update what is in the vaccine to try to match the current strains, the omicron and that looks as though it will induce a good immune response. we don't know yet if it will be a big advantage in terms of protecting people. that will have to wait and see until the vaccine has eventually been used in large number is a people. we eventually been used in large number isa --eole. ~ ., eventually been used in large number isa --eole. ~ . , ., ., is a people. we have 'ust had a flash is a people. we have 'ust had

over more than a last hour, in fact, ringing out and passed arm buildings, landmarks such as imperial college, the victoria, and albert museum, the natural history museum in south kensington. going further westwards. go through the areas of hammersmith and she's sick on the north side of the river thames. and then deliberately, the hearse will carry on along what are known as a road. so it's not a motorway. visa roads, which have spaces where members of the public will be able to safely view it, sim procession westwards to windsor to the castle. and eventually along what they call the long walk where crowds will be lining the route there. and also able to watch on big screens as well for that sir. commitment that term service in the chapel later on before the private burial ceremony at the end of the day. in fact, people are able not just to, it's a view in person in places like here on the mouth. but sir, there are screens that have been put out around the country, not just in hyde park, but in places like edinburgh. manchester leads, major cities are and even cinemas, which of clothes are o

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imperial or mercantile ambitions. he's kind of on the same page as granger. i'm going to mispronounce his name, but david sear it, i think, is still the naval war college because the whole thing a vanity project for catherine the second it's it's kind of harsh but might be this might be the case and then isobel the material guy who got hold of sir james harrison's diaries and looked at all his correspondence she essentially says that it's an attempt to force britain to clarify international law. it comes to neutral rights at sea during times of war. so he gives her the or she she gives catherine the most credit and she highlights, i think, to her credit that the russian complaints about russian about british naval policy continue and escalate well into 1783. so i think that's a more serious interpretation. it's also 60 years old and she wrote a great book in the sixties and unfortunately the language, frankly, of diplomacy was in french. and i don't read french. and her book has great passages in it, and they're all in french. i did what i could wish they'd been in russian. all these explanations haven't. after fact aspect to them. they can look back over time

imperial or mercantile ambitions. he's kind of on the same page as granger. i'm going to mispronounce his name, but david sear it, i think, is still the naval war college because the whole thing a vanity project for catherine the second it's it's kind of harsh but might be this might be the case and then isobel the material guy who got hold of sir james harrison's diaries and looked at all his correspondence she essentially says that it's an attempt to force britain to clarify international law. it comes to neutral rights at sea during times of war. so he gives her the or she she gives catherine the most credit and she highlights, i think, to her credit that the russian complaints about russian about british naval policy continue and escalate well into 1783. so i think that's a more serious interpretation. it's also 60 years old and she wrote a great book in the sixties and unfortunately the language, frankly, of diplomacy was in french. and i don't read french. and her book has great passages in it, and they're all in french. i did what i could wish they'd been in russian. all these explanations haven't. after fact aspect to them. they can look back over time