1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: How hot are you, Catherine, Come on, tell us, is 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: it the end of the world? 3 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 2: It certainly does feel like it's the apocalypse. Spike. I 4 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:10,479 Speaker 2: have to tell you you can hear me because I've 5 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 2: just leant over and switched off the fan that's been 6 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 2: on beside me all day. It has been absolutely extreme 7 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,080 Speaker 2: temperatures here the last few days. I mean, just look 8 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 2: at it. Spain. Highest ever temperature at forty six degrees 9 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 2: in southern Spain. Yet we have heat waves summer. This 10 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 2: is true, but there's never been temperatures this high so 11 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 2: early in the summer, or this high generally. I mean 12 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 2: Monday was the hottest June day in France. Ever, they 13 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 2: say it's only going to get worse by Tuesday lunchtime. 14 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:47,639 Speaker 2: It's going to get up to around forty forty one degrees. 15 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 2: The warnings are just intense, like you know, extreme heats. 16 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 2: So there's going to be health alerts, wildfire alerts, just 17 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 2: telling people stay indoors that this is going to be uncomfortable, 18 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 2: watch out for forest fires, and just the rest of 19 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 2: the news is get used to it because it's going 20 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:06,119 Speaker 2: to be a long summer. 21 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:09,480 Speaker 1: That was my next question. So you're not going up 22 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: and up and up. In other words, by the time 23 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: you get to July and August, you're not going to 24 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: have forty nine. But presumably what you're talking about is 25 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:17,559 Speaker 1: a lot of hot days over an extended period of time, 26 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: and that'll wee you down. 27 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 2: It will weigh down. I mean you're already seeing it, Mike. 28 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 2: You we've had what four days of this. People already 29 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 2: getting a little grudge. Here was one other. It's fine 30 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 2: if your work of regular hours, and you can be 31 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 2: like me and go and walk your dogs at two 32 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning and meet all your neighbors and 33 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 2: have a good chat. But other people have to good work. 34 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,040 Speaker 2: Go wherever it is they work. Not all places have 35 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 2: the air coorns. So on that respect, it is bad that, Mike. 36 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 2: You also have to remember this has come after a 37 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 2: very dry winter. You had a dry spring, so the 38 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 2: ground is already pretty parched. And that's why they're saying, 39 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 2: not just here in France, but Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, 40 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 2: there will be forest fires. Just be really careful. 41 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 1: What's it doing. And I worry about the grapes. You're 42 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: picking about September and a grape like stress. But I'm 43 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: thinking if you didn't have much water and winter, and 44 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 1: you know, the agriculture must be affected by all this, 45 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: it really is. 46 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 2: I mean, now we're starting to see not just agriculture 47 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 2: affected by climate change, but also by global conflict. Look 48 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 2: at what we've got. We've got Poland and Ukraine, the 49 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 2: world's leading grain exporters, Europe's spread basket. They've been in 50 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 2: drought now for more than three months. They had a 51 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 2: very dry winter, they had a dry spring as well. 52 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 2: So we're going to be this time next year, we're 53 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,519 Speaker 2: going to be looking at really high grain prices elsewhere. Already, 54 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 2: traffic along the Rhine River is down because the water 55 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 2: levels are down. You've got barges, vessels that are unable 56 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 2: to sail fully loaded, some of them about forty to 57 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:55,920 Speaker 2: fifty percent loaded. What does it mean? That means the grain, 58 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 2: the minerals, the oil that they're taking along the Rhine 59 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 2: that's going to be more expensive by the time it 60 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 2: gets to the consumer. 61 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 1: The smoking band that came in yesterday today, whatever date 62 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: you're on, is is there much debate around that or 63 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:10,519 Speaker 1: are you just joining many other parts of the world. 64 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 1: And that is what it is? 65 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 2: It is what it is really I mean, there's been 66 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 2: a couple of complaints about it, but it was just 67 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:21,079 Speaker 2: really putting in place what a lot of local councils 68 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 2: had already been doing. You know, you go to the 69 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 2: beach and people were smoking beside you, and people didn't 70 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 2: like it, and it was really just regularizing a situation 71 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 2: that in the summer months was a little bit unpleasant 72 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:32,359 Speaker 2: for Okay. 73 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: These scientists who have parked themselves under the science asylum, 74 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 1: how many are there? And do you think they'll stay? 75 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 1: And what are they doing? And you know, are they hot? 76 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 2: They well, yes, at the moment, the first aid have arrived. 77 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 2: They're down at the University of Ex Marseilles, which is 78 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 2: one of France's largest universities. The first of twenty from 79 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 2: the United States they've arrived. They're going to be doing health, 80 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 2: climate science, astrophysics, those sorts of subjects. There will eventually 81 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 2: be twenty downe there. For those twenty places, at one university, 82 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 2: they received three hundred applications from American researchers. That particular 83 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 2: university is putting up around twenty eight million New Zealand 84 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 2: dollars to attract these researchers. There will be other universities 85 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 2: that are looking as part of this asylum possibilities for 86 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 2: researchers from America. The French government has put in total 87 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 2: around two hundred million New Zealand dollars to get these 88 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 2: researchers to bring their knowledge to France in the hope 89 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,479 Speaker 2: that the knowledge they bring will help the economy will 90 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 2: help society in general. 91 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 1: We wish them well. Go well, Catherine stay called Catherine 92 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: Field in France a hot France. For more from the 93 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:44,679 Speaker 1: My Asking Breakfast, listen live to news talks. 94 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 2: It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast 95 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 2: on iHeartRadio.