michael mann, very good to talk to ou, act. michael mann, very good to talk to you. thank — act.ce deal with the violence and looting that was triggered by the jailing of former president jacob zuma. mr zuma was convicted of contempt of court, after failing to attend an inquiry into corruption, during his presidency. the bbc�*s southern africa correspondent nomsa maseko has this report. south african police were clearly overwhelmed. they have their hands full trying to stop mobs who started looting shopping centres. nothing was spared. every shop was looted here. the military was then deployed. with more boots on the ground, the government hopes the protests and looting will come to an end. the jailing of south africa's former president jacob zuma resulted in violent protest action followed by looting incidents in two provinces — mr zuma's home province of kwazulu—natal and gauteng, the country's economic hub. more than 200 people have been arrested. police are investigating the deaths of six others. south africa's president, cyril ramaphosa, addressed the nation last night. he s

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and joining me to talk about the science is michael mann, director of the earth system science centerciate you being here. it really hit me as we were seeing these first slug waters come into germany when the environment minister there said simply climate change has come to germany. to what extent is climate change to blame for what we're seeing in western europe? >> yeah, it is really not that complicated at this point. we would not be seeing these events in the absence of human caused climate change, the warming of the planet from the burning of fossil fuels and generation of carbon pollution in the atmosphere. this is catastrophic climate change. it is here. and at this point, it is a matter of how bad we're willing to let it get. you know, you warm up the planet, you will get more extreme and more frequent heatwaves. you will get worse droughts. you put heat and drought together, you get these massive wildfires. at the same time a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture. and so when it does rain, which is the other side of the spectrum, you get more rainfall in shorter periods of ti

michael mann with us, d scientis distinguished scientist from penn state and author of a book.th overshoot day and it's jut july. meanwhile, seeing these effects of climate change constantly now with big storms and raging fires. are we prepared for the problems that humans are causing with climate change >> yeah, shep. good to be with you. i'll tell you, we really are seeing the profound impacts of human-caused climate change playing out in extreme weathertr events you're talking a and it is interesting that we events you're talking about and it is interesting that we're watching that play out, watching that happen, as we discuss this overshoot day. this day that marks sort of when we've run out of our budget. it's like you have a budget for the entire year to cover your food, rent, mortgage, living expenses got to last you through december 31st and you run out in july. that's what's happening to us when it comes to the resources that the planet can naturally provide us, and the rate at which we are using those resources. >> we weren't using so much during early parts of the pa