Climate impacts and solutions with Prof Peter Thorne

The Met Éireann Podcast by Met Éireann

Jan 9, 202334:55Science & Medicine

The extreme heatwaves and droughts of Summer 2022 affected hundreds of millions of people across the Northern Hemisphere, and although exceptional to us, should they now be expected in a warming climate? Will last summer...

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