{"id":355219,"date":"2026-06-24T13:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/is-europes-record-heatwave-a-sign-of-its-future-climate-global-news-podcast\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:00:24","slug":"is-europes-record-heatwave-a-sign-of-its-future-climate-global-news-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/is-europes-record-heatwave-a-sign-of-its-future-climate-global-news-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Europe&#8217;s record heatwave a sign of its future climate? | Global News Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/1i1CmnG9jTw\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Is Europe's record heatwave a sign of its future climate? | Global News Podcast\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1i1CmnG9jTw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Tens of millions of people across western Europe are sweltering under unusually high temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>A maximum red heatwave alert covers more than half of France, where temperatures have broken the average record for June. The heat is also touching 40 Celsius in Spain and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s climate editor Justin Rowlatt tells us how European governments are attempting to mitigate the effects of extreme heat, both now and long into the future.<\/p>\n<p>New episodes of the Global News Podcast are published twice a day. You can listen here: https:\/\/link.mgln.ai\/GNP-YT<\/p>\n<p>And you can find more of our YouTube episodes here: https:\/\/bbc.in\/GlobalNewsPodcast<\/p>\n<p>Chapters: <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Introduction<br \/>\n00:27 Is this heatwave a sign of what&#8217;s to come?<br \/>\n01:31 Weather forecast projections for the next few decades<br \/>\n03:03 Reflection on Europe heatwave in 2003<br \/>\n04:23 How are governments responding to heatwaves?<br \/>\n06:08 Are countries acting urgently on climate change?<br \/>\n07:25 How much worse could it get?<br \/>\n08:18 Could urbanisation be reversed because of extreme temperatures?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of millions of people across western Europe are sweltering under unusually high temperatures. A maximum red heatwave alert covers more than half of France, where temperatures have broken the average record for June. The heat is also touching 40 Celsius in Spain and Portugal. 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