matt mcgrath, bbc news.new investment has fallen dramatically, as companies spend hundreds of millions of pounds preparing for a no—deal brexit. the society of motor manufacturers and traders says production fell by more than a fifth in the first half of 2019. the organisation is warning that no—deal will present an ‘existential threat‘ to the industry. our business correspondent, theo leggett reports. car making is one of britain's biggest manufacturing industries and it accounts for a large part of exports but its prospects are looking increasingly bleak. in the first six months of the year, production fell by a fifth as sales in major markets abroad dropped sharply. meanwhile new investment in the industry has plummeted . not long ago companies were investing billions of pounds every year in new factories and facilities. so far the figure has been a paltry 90 million and the smmt says uncertainty over brexit is at least partially to blame. it's been a massive drop off because we have that fear of no deal.

matt mcgrath, bbc news.so much for coming in. doesn't make you wary that ten hottest years in this century alone? i would say it is a significant result and not surprising in the sense that it is exactly what we would expect from global warning so we have to keep in mind that we have 1 degrees of global warming since the mid—19th century and preindustrial times and we still have an actual year to year fluctuation in temperature because of random weather but what we are doing is we are shifting the odds towards a more warm events and fewer cold events that we can still have the occasional cold snap like the beast from the east and last year and despite that in 2018 we were still a one year and this was a warmer than average year. can you explain why we get so much rain i do not know if you saw our reporter in yorkshire who had to come home and a tractor because the water was so high? temperature is not the only impact but we also know from theory that extreme events will also become more and so heavier downpo

here‘s our environment correspondent matt mcgrath on that.ood buddy batted in saying that conditions behind extremes he didn‘t like what we are experiencing right now are caused by climate change but if you look back injune, temperature records were upset all over the world, a1 temperatures had new records, and europe they were about a degree above the long—term average that was a five day heat wave in the middle of it and if you look back further, between 1850 19005, look back further, between 1850 1900s, there are three degrees warmer which is a huge difference. scientist decided to look at it and see what‘s going on and the impact of climate change or what it was doing to temperature is and they came up with the pretty quick assessment suggesting that climate change is that we are seeing from the result of ice burning fossil fields had made the likelihood of heat records and he played injune in europe by about five times more likely. previous studies and other times last year met up is looking at the uk saying the heatwave experience last

more details from our environment correspondent matt mcgrath.fter a new high temperature record was set in the uk. last week's short, scorching heatwave saw the mercury hit 38.7 celsius in cambridge. but that new high mark doesn't come as much of a surprise to climate scientists. for those tracking the data, the uk is simply mirroring a global trend, showing the human impact on our climate. we are likely to see more warmer years on record, possibly record—breaking temperatures in the future. those colder conditions are going to become less frequent, so the beast from the east events will still happen from time to time, but they will become less frequent, less extreme when they do happen, and the warm events, the rainfall events, the heavier rainfall events, will become a much more frequent occurrence. as an island, the uk's climate is extremely variable. but when natural variability gives us a hot year it's far more likely to be in the top ten because of the warmer background. while 2014 didn't break any heat records it was consistently warm eno

our environment correspondent, matt mcgrath has been following the proceedings and joins me now.im that climate change was real. natural world that convinced him that climate change was reallj natural world that convinced him that climate change was real. i will never forget diving on the reef about ten years ago and suddenly seeing that instead of this multitude of wonderful forms and life, that it was stark white, it had bleached white, because of the rising temperatures and the increasing acidity of the sea. 30 to 40% of all oceanic fish depend upon the coral reef at some point in their life. and if you wipe that out, you might out whole areas of the ocean. and the notion that somehow we had stopped this, the oceans on which we depend for a food, and so many nations around the world do, is appalling. sir david talking to the committee earlier on and he was quite passionate about the impact he had seen in the natural world. scientific data had convinced him that climate change was real but those examples he sought in the arctic, the antarctic and around the world, especially th

our environment correspondent, matt mcgrath, has been following the proceedings and joins me now.in might get to net zero by 2050 and he painted a picture about how things have changed over the course of his long career. he said about 60 years ago nobody talked about climate change. it didn't exist in some respects and he didn't envisage it could have this irreversible change on the planet. he was asked by mps what he had himself had seen as the most dramatic impacts of climate change in his career. i will never forget diving on a reef about ten years ago and suddenly seeing that instead of wonderful forms of life, it was stark white, it had bleached white, because of the rising temperatures and the increasing acidity of the sea. about 30 to 40% of all oceanic fish, fish throughout the seas, depend upon the coral reefs at some time in theirlives, and if you wipe that out you wipe out whole areas of the ocean, and the notion that somehow we have stopped this, the oceans on which we depend for our food, and so many nations around the world do, is appalling. critical of politicians b

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