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There've been repeated devastating floods here in recent years. and when the water subsides, it can take months to repair the damage to homes and businesses. across the uk, destruction from flooding costs an estimated £700 million per year. here at the fathom labs in bristol, they're simulating all of the causes of flooding, creating maps that will help people to plan and prepare. we call this a flood hazard map. so what we've done is we've simulated the probability and intensity of flooding on every river in the uk. scientists used layers of information about what causes flooding. they mappe...

Exactly climate change will affect flood risk. even if we can keep global temperatures to a 1.8 degree increase, there are areas where flood risk will increase significantly, including the southeast and northwest of england and south wales. but there will be little change across northeast and central england, as well as eastern and northern scotland. there are many places where risk is growing and being able to understand the communities and the regions where this is likely to happen allows us to make sensible investment decisions about making interventions, such as engineering structures or n...

They've combined all this information with details from the met office about how exactly climate change will affect flood risk. even if we can keep global temperatures to a 1.8 degree increase, there are areas where flood risk will increase significantly, including the southeast and northwest of england and south wales. but there will be little change across northeast and central england as well as eastern and northern scotland. there are many places where risk is growing and being able to understand the communities and the regions where this is likely to happen allows us to make sensible inve...

Deaths have been the single greatest cause of weather related fatalities. i think about with black communities but also native american communities found they have the highest percentage of heat related deaths per group. can you tell us why that is? what is this white house doing to mitigate the effects? >> reverent,, you're absolutely right. let me add a couple of other steps to that. we know that black americans, 34% are more likely to live in communities because of climate change. if we see a two degree increase in temperature, 34% of black americans children will see an increase in asthma....

Our planet is warming, i know its ability to retain moisture is directly going to be related to what is happening here. in fact plenty of studies have been done on the increased nature of heavy rain events and guess what corner of the u.s. has highest likelihood? of course we saw one with henri and here we go, 70 plus percent right there in the northeast has seen the highest increase in heavy rain events. as our planet warms, guess where all that energy is stormed, in our oceans. 90% is stored as heat energy in the oceans. and of course fuels the storms. and there is a remarkable persistence w...