The Climate Question

Why isn’t the world heating equally?

The Arctic is warming four times faster than the global average temperature. Ice caps are melting, forcing the indigenous Inuit community living around the Northwest passage to change their way of life. Polar bears and wildlife are losing their habitats and the ability to hunt. Further south, Middle Eastern countries are facing temperatures above 50 Celsius more regularly. We speak to people living in these rapidly warming parts of the world and find out why their countries are warming faster than others and what impact it is having. Presenters Sophie Eastaugh and Luke Jones are joined by:
Carlo Buontempo, from Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth Observation Programme
Kenzie Azmi, Greenpeace Middle East Campaigner
Essa Ramadan, Meteorologist and Weatherman in Kuwait 
Reporter: Mark Stratton in the Arctic
Plus interviews with Dr Wenju Cai from Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research and Ben Rich from the BBC Weather Centre Email us: theclimatequestion@bbc.comProduction Team:
Producer: Natasha Fernandes
Production coordinators: Helena Warwick-Cross and Siobhan Reed
Series Producer: Alex Lewis
Editor: Emma Rippon
Sound Engineer: Neil Churchill

A global programme that reflects the variety of takes on climate change, how best to understand it and the world’s attempts to avert it, temper it or adapt to it.
It is not about questioning whether climate change is happening, it’s about finding the best ways to respond to it.
This is sharp-edged, analytical inquiry. Hard scrutiny, touched with a sense of adventure and discovery, and where we can find it, hope.
It includes stories from across the world on why we find it so hard to save our own planet, and how we might change that.