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29/07/2023 GMT

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The role data plays in climate attribution - and why we don’t always have it

Recent global headlines have been dominated by record temperatures in parts of Europe, North America and Asia. As extreme weather events have happened for decades, how are links to climate change made?

In this programme we look at how scientists use data to draw climate conclusions and hear how that data isn’t always available. We focus particularly on severe flooding earlier this year in part of Central Africa. With Joyce Kimutai, principal meteorologist and climate scientist at the Kenya Meteorological Department and researcher at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College.

Presenter: Kate Lamble
Producers: Nathan Gower, Jon Bithrey
Editor: Simon Watts
Production Co-ordinator: Brenda Brown
Sound Engineer: Graham Puddifoot

(landslide destroyed homes in a remote mountainous area of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo on May 9 2023. Credit: Djaffar Sabiti/BBC Images)

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