and russia's deadly wildfires a small cities in poor harvest are being seen by some of our manolis as signs of manmade climate change but others disagree my colleague bill dodd spoke to piers corben of the weather action foundation who says it's all down to climate cycles. climate has always been china but it has nothing to do with man and we predicted that there would be extreme heat in used europe and russia this summer and it's caused by a. pattern c o two does not cause circulation patterns what causes those is a combination of solar activity and the state of the phases of the moon. excuse me just a minute you say this isn't caused by man how come the reporting this heat wave is recognize the worst in the thousand years of recorded history in russia and. has got something to do with this has really not nothing to do with only the only connection is man is here design time as the sun in the moon or doing things you see a very similar situation happened about one hundred thirty two years ago where there was the side. of magnetic state there was he was in russia on the wall so floods