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Flooding and the recent heat that we have seen and the fires, i mean, it is impossible not to be shocked by this kind of thing. but you know we do know that these types of rainfall and these types of heat events and fires are possible. we have seen some of this in the historical record as well. but when we look towards the future of climate we know that these things are going to happen more often and we need to be more prepared. of course, the rainfall has been extreme but are we prepared enough for these events? for example, in the little things like this reservoir it is significant in stoppi...

And fires are possible. we have seen some of this in the historical record as well. but when we look towards the future of climate we know that these things are going to happen more often and we need to be more prepared. of course, the rainfall has been extreme but are we prepared enough for these events? for example, in the little things like this reservoir it is significant in stopping a town getting floods. so are we prepared enough for these extreme rainfall events? it is really frustrating actually as a climate scientist, as a hydrologist, to see people not prepared for these really bad f...

Which gather in the crop and bring that in in slightly wetter conditions and so it allows us to do a bit more each day. we are here at one of your wheat fields, about a0 acres of wheat here. and what do you do differently now in terms of when you plant this crop compared to what you would have done traditionally? so traditionally this would have been a plough—based system. we would have cloud it and then drilled in the autumn or winter wheat or we would have cloud it here ready for the spring cropping and left it as a plough over the winter. very much that releases an awful lot of carbon and...

Here ready for the spring cropping and left it as a plough over the winter. very much that releases an awful lot of carbon and it creates an awful lot of energy. so to reduce that we are now doing direct drilling and drilling in the autumn, direct drilling the crop seed into it without that plough movement, so we are reducing carbon that way. and once all these crops have been harvested and you have got bare soil, what do you do to protect that soil from say increasing extreme rainfall events? so in the autumn we would direct drill a cover crop into there and use it as almost as a false crop d...

Into it without that plough movement, so we are reducing carbon that way. and once all these crops have been harvested and you have got bare soil, what do you do to protect that soil from say increasing extreme rainfall events? so in the autumn we would direct drill a cover crop into there and use it as almost as a false crop during that winter period and then come the spring time we would kill off that crop and then plant a new crop in there that will be our cash crop. we have had some really heavy storms that have washed away the soil and we are trying to protect that and trying to protect o...