World View with Adam Gilchrist: World Cup fans who never came home

Breakfast with Bongani Bingwa · 3 June 2026 · 4m

Speaker 1: The Worldview with Adam Gilchrist. Speaker 2: Let's catch up now with news from elsewhere in the world. Adam, we've already spoken Speaker 2: about the searing heat in Europe and the UN now saying it's all because of Speaker 2: a major Al Nino event. Talk to us things are heating up. Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and there's worse to come. Absolutely. I think India has been especially about. Speaker 1: I mean they've been nudging fifty degrees in some parts. So this is a warning Speaker 1: from the World Meteorological Organization, essentially the United Nations, telling us that this isn't just Speaker 1: going to be an El Ninia. This is going to be potentially a super El Speaker 1: Nino, so a wind and warmth switch over the tropical Pacific that they say will Speaker 1: affect probably most of the planet in particular with heat extremes and storm extremes. It's Speaker 1: not just about the temperature going up. Several forecasts from national weather agencies have talked Speaker 1: about how this could end up being the strongest ever. I'm sure once upon a Speaker 1: time, Il Nina was a thing we heard about that kind of went in the Speaker 1: Pacific and affected California. Well. Now absolutely as well. Beyond that, driving more extreme weather Speaker 1: around most of the planet. As a UK climatologist, Professor Adam Scaife put it, where Speaker 1: very confident there's a big event coming. He was almost too excited really for this. Speaker 1: The warning is that if you can be prepared for extremes in our weather patterns, Speaker 1: that's what we're getting. Speaker 2: Yeah, it's extraordinary. Talk to me about the main attraction for America's big birthday. Yeah, Speaker…

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