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ARCHIVE: Death Valley National Park – 7 July 2024
1. Danger sign with road in background
2. People posing with thermometer
3. People taking photos near salt flat and sign reading "Extreme Heat Danger"
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Barcelona, Spain – 5 September 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Carlo Buontempo, Copernicus Director:
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"This was the the warmest August and the warmest summer on record globally. And and this is happening in the moment where, El Nino is no longer the main driver. We still have some warmth in the Pacific, but we still have very warm ocean elsewhere. And so it’s no longer El Nino. And of the many drivers of climate variability, I think one of the… the one we need to look into, in this case as a main responsible is really the, anthropogenic climate change and the increase in greenhouse gases in our atmosphere."
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ARCHIVE: Petersburg, Indiana – 25 October 2023
5. Various drone shots of Petersburg Generating Station coal plant
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ARCHIVE: Sukkur District, Sindh Province, Pakistan – 27 May 2024
6. Heatstroke relief camp, people drinking water
7. Close of tub of cold water
8. Man pouring water over his face
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Barcelona, Spain – 5 September 2024
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Carlo Buontempo, Copernicus Director:
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"We were starting from a very warm place. So January was the warmest on record, and so was February and so on and so forth. So in a sense, we have that accumulated heat into the system. What we are seeing is not, is not just a random fluctuation, is not an oddity of climate that may be due to a strange combination of one of the many factors that affect the climate on this planet, but is really, there is a disproportional effect that is induced by this long term accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere."
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ARCHIVE: Sakhir, Bahrain – 13 December 2014
10. Various of oil pump in operation
11. Oil pump reflected in puddle of spilled oil on ground
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Barcelona, Spain – 5 September 2024
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Carlo Buontempo, Copernicus Director:
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"(Climate change) is adding on top and is always adding in the same direction. So it is not surprising that we see this heatwave, that we see these temperature extremes. And we are bound to see more because of this many, many factors, some of which are, you know, going up, some are going down. This one is constantly and consistently going up through the years and decades."
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ARCHIVE: Veracruz, Mexico – 16 June 2024
13. Veracruz resident Margarita Salazar Pérez seated at her bed next to fan
14. Salazar Pérez wiping her sweat
15. Close fan at her home
STORYLINE:
Summer 2024 sweltered to Earth’s hottest on record, making it even more likely that this year will end up as the warmest humanity has measured, European climate service Copernicus reported Friday.
And if this sounds familiar, that’s because the records the globe shattered were set just last year as human-caused climate change, with a temporary boost from an El Nino, keeps dialing up temperatures and extreme weather, scientists said.
The Augusts of both 2024 and 2023 tied for the hottest Augusts globally at 16.82 degrees Celsius (62.27 degrees Fahrenheit). July was the first time in more than a year that the world did not set a record, a tad behind 2023, but because June 2024 was so much hotter than June 2023, this summer as a whole was the hottest, Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo said.
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