In its weekly voxpop, the Advertiser found out people's opinions on the cause of this week's high temperatures.
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00:00 I don't think it was a result of climate change. The climate has been changing forever, it
00:14 will continue to change forever and we just can't keep blaming it for everything that
00:19 goes wrong with our weather system.
00:21 Yeah, I mean to a certain extent I would agree. I think there has been issues with obviously
00:27 pollution and things like that that have caused climate change but climate naturally changes
00:32 anyway. You know we've had ice ages, things like that. So I think yes, some of it is climate
00:39 change but I think some of it is naturally changing anyway.
00:42 I think it probably was caused by climate change but I also know that it was caused
00:46 by El Nino. The jet stream was in a different place and it's gone back now so we're getting
00:50 a lot of the African plume and it's basically down to the jet stream but yeah, climate change
00:56 is the main reason.
00:57 I think it is because of climate change or at least made worse because of climate change.
01:03 I think it's not just this country but all over the world where they're destroying all
01:08 the forests which is making oxygen and good things for the atmosphere. So they're destroying
01:16 the forests, burning them and that's really, really terrible for the world. So we should,
01:23 everywhere over the world should plant millions and millions of more trees.
01:28 I think it's probably to do with all this space exploration and the way we're digging
01:37 stuff out of the ground which heats the earth up as well. And then the icebergs and so on
01:48 which kept breaking off from Iceland and that's all to do with it.
01:52 I don't necessarily think, I mean it could be from climate change but to be honest it
01:57 is only like what, the first week of September? The first four weeks so it could just be like
02:04 the back end of summer, a bit of an anomaly really but it'll probably change and revert
02:08 back to normal pretty soon I'd imagine.
02:10 Well I'm very interested in saving our planet and we need to look after our planet. I cycle
02:17 everywhere and we need to get more people out of their cars and on public transport.
02:23 We had a hot heat wave and that has affected our planet because people are polluting our
02:29 environment. We need to get more people on electric vehicles and on buses to save our
02:38 planet for the future. And I look forward to seeing this happening, to get more people
02:44 getting out of their cars, doing more walking and cycling and saving our town from the pollution
02:52 and the toxic fumes we have to go through every day.
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