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The Winds Are Changing feat. Dr. Hannah Bloomfield
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English - December 11, 2021 21:36 - 36 minutes - 83 MBPolitics News Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Hannah Bloomfield, a Climate Risk Analytics research associate at the University of Bristol, to examine an extreme weather event that affected European energy output significantly this year: a wind drought. We discuss how unequal warming between the poles and the equator is potentially leading to a pattern of decreasing mid latitude wind speeds, a phenomenon known as global stilling and the consequences this will have for electric systems that are becoming increasingly reliant on the weather.
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