Met Office – Weather published this video item, entitled “Weather Snap Audio Podcast – Pembrokeshire Dangler and climate change in Chile” – below is their description.
Audio only podcast series in which the Met Office takes a weekly look at the science behind the weather and climate headlines.
In this week’s podcast UK Chief Scientist Sir Patrick Vallance talks about the role of science in tackling climate change. Chilean Science minister Andrés Couve describes the impacts climate change is having on Chile and closer to home, we have an explanation of the term Pembrokeshire Dangler!
Presenter: Clare Nasir
Climate Correspondent: Grahame Madge
Editor: Adrian Holloway
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The Meteorological Office, abbreviated as the Met Office is the United Kingdom’s national weather service.
It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy led by CEO Penelope Endersby, who took on the role as Chief Executive in December 2018, is the first woman to do so.
The Met Office makes meteorological predictions across all timescales from weather forecasts to climate change.
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It occupies a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Chile covers an area of 756,096 square kilometres (291,930 sq mi) and has a population of 17.5 million as of 2017. The capital and largest city is Santiago and the national language is Spanish.
Chile borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. Chilean territory includes the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island in Oceania. Chile also claims about 1,250,000 square kilometres (480,000 sq mi) of Antarctica under the Chilean Antarctic Territory.
Climate is the long-term average of weather, typically averaged over a period of 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years.
Climate Change is the name commonly given to the notion that the Earth is undergoing a changing climate as a result of human activity, including notable leaders, scientists and naturalists including Sir David Attenborough.
Climate change includes both the global warming driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns.
Sir Patrick John Thompson Vallance FRS FMedSci FRCP is a British physician, scientist, and clinical pharmacologist who has worked in both academia and industry and, since March 2018, has been the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of the United Kingdom.
