"The age of global warming is over, it's time for the age of global boiling," warns the United Nations Secretary General.
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00:00 July 2023 is set to be a record breaker as the hottest month on record, possibly the
00:06 warmest in human history. A few of the highs that have been set this month, we had 52.9
00:13 degrees Celsius in China, 48.2 degrees Celsius in Sardinia, 39.6 degrees at night in Algeria
00:22 and sea temperatures of 37.2 degrees in Florida. Now, we have been building up to this for
00:29 some time. If we have a look at this graphic, then the black line shows daily global surface
00:35 temperatures this year since January, and it's above average all year, building up to
00:40 the peaks that you see there in July. Now, this new all time record is actually the culmination
00:46 of the heat waves we've seen on land and also in the oceans. Here's Samantha Burgess from
00:51 the Copernicus Climate Change Service.
00:53 So all of this additional warm air and warm surface water is kind of feeding back on each
01:01 other. So we're seeing record temperatures warmer than we've ever seen before.
01:06 You may have heard that 2023 will be warmer because the El Nino phenomenon is back in
01:12 the Pacific, part of a natural cycle on our planet. But scientists say it's actually too
01:18 early for that.
01:19 It's not El Nino yet. So the expectation is that with El Nino developing right now,
01:26 we will get warmer temperatures to come. And the expectation is that the temperatures for
01:31 2024 may be even warmer still.
01:34 Indeed, the seasonal forecast for the rest of the year does show continued above average
01:40 temperatures over land. So what can we do? Well, world leaders will have to act quickly
01:45 at the G20 and COP28 summits in order to slash emissions of CO2 and methane into the atmosphere
01:53 as soon as possible. Doing so will slow down the rate of warming, but there's no instant
02:00 remedy. The heat and the weather extremes that we have been experiencing are with us
02:05 for decades to come.
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