2024 hotest year in history: A look at climate disasters across the globe

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00:00This lake in Sicily once described as an eternal spring all but dried up for the first time on

00:05record this year due to a lethal mix of hot weather and low rains. In India residents lived

00:12through their longest ever heat wave with 24 consecutive days above 40 degrees and almost

00:19everywhere on earth people experienced 41 additional days of dangerous heat.

00:25The poorest least developed countries on the planet are the places that are experiencing

00:30even higher numbers so places like Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Kiribati are experiencing

00:37150 or more days just this year that are at dangerous levels of heat that we can attribute

00:44directly to climate change. World Weather Attribution released analysis of 2024 on Friday

00:50they say shows how dangerous life has already become under human induced warming. Ocean

00:56temperatures are rising and more water is evaporating which increases the risk of

01:01torrential rain as seen in the deadly floods in Valencia in autumn. Warming sea surfaces

01:08also accelerate the force of winds when they make landfall which some scientists say can make

01:13cyclones even more powerful such as the recent one that ravaged Mayotte and an increase in drought

01:20and wildfires led to huge biodiversity loss. We need to move away from fossil fuels much faster

01:28and completely if we want to avoid ever more extreme events that also will reach the limits

01:34of what societies are able to adapt to and not get distracted by discussions of whether it's

01:41too late to do this it's not. The report's authors say 26 weather events killed or contributed to

01:49the death of at least 3,700 people this year and displaced millions.

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