We are turning our eye to the extreme weather conditions in Louisiana: where there are warnings of storm surges and flash floods for in and around New Orleans.This in the wake of the now weakened Hurrican Ida. The Hurricane slammed into the Louisiana coast on Sunday, knocking out power for more than a million people, including the whole of New Orleans. Ida comes 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated the same area. 

But it is not just wetter weather than the world is seeing. It is drier weather too: at this very moment there are around 90 wildfires blazing in the US. Only this month, Europe recorded its hottest-ever temperature. Wildfires tore through the Mediterranean region and last month's severe rainfall and flooding killed scores of people in Germany and Belgium.

Is the planet trying to tell us something? Is there a clear link between extreme weather and climate change? And despite measures from world governments, will things to get worse before they get better if indeed they do get better.

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