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Record heat, drought and extreme weather: Can we still adapt? | To the Point
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26:07Now PlayingExtreme weather conditions and no end in sight. More and more parts of the world are reporting new heat records. Temperatures sometimes reach life-threatening levels.
Like in the US or in China’s northwest. This comes as forest fires burn thousands and thousands of urgently needed trees. Torrential rains cause floods in one part of the world while others are seeing droughts.
The fact is: weather extremes are on the rise. Yet the earth has only heated up by an average of 1.1 degrees.
If the goal of limiting warming to a maximum of 1.5 degrees were to be reached, the effects would probably be even worse.
So on To the Point, we ask: Record heat, drought, and extreme weather: Can we still adapt?
Our guests: Claudia Kemfert (DIW); Mekonnen Mesghena (Heinrich Böll-Stiftung); Matthew Karnitschnig (Politico
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