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Science educator Bill Nye discussed the recent heat wave gripping parts of the U.S. on ABC’s “This Week,” describing it as the start of a “new normal.” Veuer’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo has the story.

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00:00Science educator Bill Nye discussed the recent heat wave gripping parts of the U.S. on ABC's
00:05This Week, describing it as the new normal.
00:09It's the beginning of the new normal with respect. So the latest research is that there's not a
00:16turning point or a tipping point or a knee in the curve. It's just going to get hotter and hotter
00:20and worse and worse and more and more extreme. A heat dome caused by a high-pressure system in
00:26the upper atmosphere has driven temperatures into the high 90s and beyond across large parts of the
00:31U.S. Nye also mentioned the impact of El Niño's transition into La Niña, which despite cooling
00:36the Pacific, paradoxically leads to more hurricanes due to reduced vertical shear in the Atlantic.
00:42So this is a taste of the normal of the future unless we, humankind, get to work and address it.
00:50He highlighted that the heat trapped in the atmosphere is now affecting the oceans,
00:54leading to more extreme weather events. So this is everything going the wrong way at once.
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