so, basically, we would not have seen a heatwave like this if it wasn t for climate change. how are you able to do an analysis and come up with the results so quickly? because i can remember the time when it would take months, even sometimes years, to find the link between climate change and extreme weather and yet this, your study, came out a week after the uk heatwave. so, how so quick? all our methods are peer reviewed, so we are not actually doing something new scientifically, we just apply methods that have been tested many times to a new event. and the other thing and that s probably even the more important one is that we have a team of people around the world who think this is really important, who also feel it s really important that you have scientific evidence in the immediate aftermath of such an event to occur and so, drop everything else and do this study.
made at least ten times more likely because of human induced climate change. so, basically, we would not have seen a heatwave like this if it wasn t for climate change. how are you able to do an analysis and come up with the results so quickly? because i can remember the time when it would take months, even sometimes years, to find the link between climate change and extreme weather and yet this, your study, came out a week after the uk heatwave. so, how so quick? all our methods are peer reviewed, so we are not actually doing something new scientifically, we just apply methods that have been tested many times to a new event. and the other thing and that s probably even the more important one is that we have a team of people around the world who think this is really important, who also feel it s really important that you have scientific evidence in the immediate aftermath of such an event to occur and so, drop everything else and do this study.
then this can, this we take the fun out is actually a question of life and death. i ve come to wennington parish church of st mary and st peter, now, right in the centre of the village. and the vicar here is reverend elise peterson. now, she s currently over in the united states, but she s agreed to talk to us via video link. so, reverend elise, thanks so much for talking to us today. now, i m standing here in the churchyard. the ground is really, really scorched. the bushes are burnt as well, but actually, the church itself looks relatively unscathed. yeah, we can see that the fire burned all around the churchyard, but actually did not touch the church walls. we ve got some smoke damage and things inside, but it s really quite miraculous. and even the villagers themselves have described it as a halo around the church. if you look at an aerial view, there s a strip of grass almost the entire way around where the fire did not get to the church walls itself. and since that wildfire you
for london fire brigade since world war two, our busiest time. if you look at the stats from last year, the first two weeks of august, we attended between a0 and 50 grass fires. to this year, where we attended, the first two weeks in august, we attended between 150 and 200 grass fires. so, it s a really big jump from one year to the next. and you ve been working a lot with members of the public here in the community as well, trying to push the fire safety message since the fire injuly, so what sort of advice are you giving people? fire safety advice, notjust in the home but in their gardens as well. safe disposal of cigarettes, safe use of barbecues. just be sensible with it. have a purpose built barbecue and have a bucket of water next to it, just in case that barbecue does start getting out of control. great advice. thank you so much, graham. we ll have more from here later in the programme, when we ll be discussing how heat and drought are fuelling ever more intense wildfires across
looks relatively unscathed. yeah, we can see that the fire burned all around the churchyard, but actually did not touch the church walls. we ve got some smoke damage and things inside, but it s really quite miraculous. and even the villagers themselves have described it as a halo around the church. if you look at an aerial view, there s a strip of grass almost the entire way around where the fire did not get to the church walls itself. and since that wildfire you have been very much involved in rebuilding the community here and supporting the community, how have the residents been rallying around? the how have the residents been rallying around? rallying around? the first sunday after rallying around? the first sunday after the - rallying around? the first sunday after the fire - rallying around? the first sunday after the fire i - rallying around? the first. sunday after the fire i hadn t intended on having a service because the building was still close, but the villagers said if w