Hannah Cloke

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Professor Hannah Cloke, a climate scientist at the University of Reading who specializes in risk and resilience, told the BBC, "Having two or three days of supplies makes perfect sense." She also said, "It can feel a bit scary, but then in preparing better it becomes less scary." Now, I do think that is right.

Fear shrinks when you've done something about it, and if you bury your head in the sand, as some people tend to do, then that doesn't help when things actually do go wrong.

So the government advice doesn't seem to say a lot, so let's see if we can flesh that out a little bit.

[gentle music] Hello, and welcome to Geography Matters, the podcast that looks at the role and the importance of geography in the modern world.

In this episode, I'm delighted to welcome Hannah Cloke, Regius Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science at the University of Reading, and an old colleague of mine from King's College in London.

Now, Hannah, your research specialty is hydrology and flooding, and today we are going to discuss, I hope, some of the links between climate change and flooding.

And we've just had one of the hottest summers ever, maybe the hottest summer ever.