ClimateChange

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Transcript: "Well, amid this summer of heat waves and wildfires, no wonder there's renewed anxiety about the future of our planet. Anxieties that will only be fuelled further by a major report on the state of the climate across the globe in 2025, a year of record high temperatures, increasing greenhouse gas emissions, and rising sea levels. The research from the American Meteorological Society paints a pretty bleak picture. Take the three main greenhouse gases that warm our atmosphere. carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide all reached record high levels in 2025. Record and nearrecord temperatures were also reached across the globe. Europe had its warmest year on record in 2025 with Russia, China, and South Korea all experiencing their second warmest. In the North Pole, the Arctic had its second warmest year in 126 years of keeping records. Surface air temperatures in the Arctic arising at around three times the global average rate. In the South Pole, Antarctica experienced the warmest temperatures since records began there just under 50 years ago. And glaciers around the world are continuing to melt, losing ice for the 38th year in a row. And this comes as many governments around the world, not least Donald Trump's America have slowed or reversed climate policies, even as the planet appears under ever greater strain. And the UK faces a similar decision around its climate policies as Andy Burnham is being encouraged by some to row back on them, especially if, and that's a matter for debate, they can help with the cost of living. Well, very soon his government will have to finally decide if it's going to approve, despite much vocal protest, drilling at Rosebank and Jack Door, two massive unexplored oil and gas fields."

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