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David Attenborough, Kate Humble and Matt Allwright investigate how climate change could threaten the UK, revealing the results of an experiment to predict 21st century weather.
- Programme: Climate Change: Britain Under Threat
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2007
- Geography
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