[FOCUS] Climate And Weather (1)

STEVE: 00:00:00

It's variable cause you've got complicated interactions cause

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it's the amount of water, , as well as the amount of sun, , and the

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overall background temperature.

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And some of the plants seem to respond to one of those things more than others.

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And then you've got the birds and sometimes the birds are going to go.

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We've got some cuckoos around at the moment, which, which

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are here, but they've traveled.

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So they've actually come from, from Africa, they've

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flown up and over and across.

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And, uh, they probably come, come past you leaky.

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They probably waved as they came past you.

STEVE: 00:00:33

Um, uh, I, I traveled across and now in the Southwest.

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, area in the UK, the dates are going to vary a bit.

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And I heard, uh, an interesting, , an account of a place in Oxford,

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uh, Oxfordshire, where there an area of Woodland where

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there've been monitoring birds.

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Uh, it was a great tits in particular, but it was, it was since 1947.

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I think it was certainly the 1940s.

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There'd be monitoring every year when these birds are laying the first day.

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In this.

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So they've got nest boxes and various things they're able to

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monitor and they'd been watching.

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And this year is compared to 19.

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Forties is like 28 days.

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So it's warmer.

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It's everything is coming earlier and that's that's 28 days.

STEVE: 00:01:22

Really?

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That's that's,

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That's quite a shift, isn't it?

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That you can't see that year by year.

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It might be a little bit different, a little bit here, a little bit there, but

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because you've got that long-term record, you can see that there's a definite shift.

TANIA: 00:01:35

Yeah, there is a website, the project called bud burst

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that monitors how the changes in plants when they're flowering.

TANIA: 00:01:45

Bud and all that it's over over many years time.

TANIA: 00:01:49

Yeah.

TANIA: 00:01:49

That's that study that, yeah, that track that it's this big citizen

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science project, but I'm sure there's one for ornithologist as

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well for the birders and all that.

TANIA: 00:02:00

Yeah.

OLABANJI: 00:02:02

The climate is really changing.

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and it's a big deal, because the way we experience everything

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is it's just changing.

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The way we experience seasons are changing the way we experience food, the way we

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experience, , . Um, a, I read a blog post that says climate is what you expect.

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And weather is what you get.

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What we expect is delivered to us and what we get typically, and if we

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expect something and we don't get.

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It \ it just changes the way we do things on a whole new skill is just like sleep.

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When you have a constant time, you sleep, you, your body is trained

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to understand that that's when you sleep and you have a time that you

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wake up and so seasons are like that.

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We expect fruit.

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At certain times, we expect, the holidays at certain times we expect many of these

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things, the form, the, the experiences, our human experiences in general.

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And so when these things are changing without we expect them that they

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are going to change it, it just alters our experience as humans.

OLABANJI: 00:03:10

Um, I mean on different levels and, and that really is a big.

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Um, and I think a little people are experiencing it differently.

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Just like what we're seeing here.

OLABANJI: 00:03:20

Um, the climate is changing.

Leekei: 00:03:24

Yeah.

Leekei: 00:03:25

And, and I think that our lives has been, as you said, our lives have been organized

Leekei: 00:03:33

around a certain expectation of whether, like, you know, we talk a lot about,

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adaptation and the coping mechanism.

Leekei: 00:03:42

So many things needs to change.

Leekei: 00:03:44

Like you just look at the built environment, look at the

Leekei: 00:03:47

buildings that houses were living.

Leekei: 00:03:50

I mean, it just crazy if the climate changes and it is changing.

Leekei: 00:03:54

And, the houses that we've been living in and I live in a very old house it's

Leekei: 00:03:59

been built like a hundred years ago.

Leekei: 00:04:01

And, , does that mean that we need to turn it down and build a new one?

Leekei: 00:04:06

It just doesn't make sense.

OLABANJI: 00:04:08

Yeah.

OLABANJI: 00:04:09

Uh, uh, I think that there's a lot of, I think that we're going to do a lot more,

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we probably will do a lot more than we're anticipating because on one hand, we're

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saying we need to protect the ecosystem from the changes that we're experiencing.

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So that.

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We don't express this changes as, as much.

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And so there's the carbon Almanac that says, Hey, read, here's how to

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protect the earth or preserve the ecosystem that we have right now.

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And we're doing that on one hand.

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But I think on the other hand, we also have to.

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I don't know, find ways to be ready for what is already changing,

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because this is going to be gradual.

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If where we're going to make progress to ensure that we don't experience

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too many more changes, but right now we're already experiencing changes and

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chances are, we will experience will continue to experience them for awhile.

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Maybe before things take a turn.

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And so I think we're, it's a two-sided thing here.

OLABANJI: 00:05:15

If I don't know if that makes any sense

STEVE: 00:05:19

Yeah, a lot of the memories we've got again.

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The strongest ones go back to when we were

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children.

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and when we were younger, we would kind of remember things.

STEVE: 00:05:27

Do you remember those really long, hot summers?

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Uh, when

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we weren't at school, we had the school, vacations holidays, and I

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think, well, yeah, but that's, what is that to do with my memory?

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