00:00Hey, a new bulletin from the World Meteorological Organization has just been released
00:04with very important new data on the El Niño phenomenon.
00:06Be very careful, because the probability of the child persisting until February 2027 is now high.
00:11It's practically 100%.
00:14Did you hear that right? 100%.
00:17I'm going to read it verbatim.
00:18This is the first time a bulletin has been so categorical.
00:21which demonstrates the broad existing consensus
00:24among the vast network of experts of the World Meteorological Organization.
00:28As we have already explained here in El Espectador,
00:31and this international organization reiterates it,
00:34The child has already established himself and will intensify in the coming months.
00:38until it became a very intense event.
00:42Something we haven't seen in recent decades.
00:45This means, the bulletin says,
00:47significant changes in temperature and precipitation patterns.
00:51And that will mean risks of flooding in some countries
00:55and droughts and extreme heat in others, such as in Colombia,
00:58where what happens will be very unsettling, especially
01:01in the Andean region, in the Pacific and in the Caribbean.
01:06Do you remember these maps we showed you a few weeks ago?
01:08and which detail how rainfall patterns will be altered in the country
01:12With a weak child or a strong child?
01:15Spend a few seconds on them again.
01:20We repeat, this is not alarmism.
01:22Today, science is reiterating that the coming months
01:25They're going to be very complicated.
01:27In the bulletin of the World Meteorological Organization
01:29There are a couple of quotes from Antonio Guterres,
01:32the Secretary-General of the United Nations,
01:34which summarizes the situation.
01:36Science leaves no room for doubt.
01:39The planet is venturing into uncharted waters.
01:42Waters are heating up.
01:45Scientists partly know that.
01:46because of the anomalies they are detecting in the Niño 3.4 region,
01:50that region of the Pacific Ocean where they collect data
01:53to monitor the progress of El Niño,
01:55They're making them very restless.
01:57Between the end of July and the middle of August,
02:00This international organization points out,
02:03weekly values at the sea surface
02:05They continued to increase.
02:07They ranged between 2.2 degrees Celsius
02:10and 2.6 degrees Celsius above the average.
02:13This is yet another call for the entire country to prepare,
02:17to the central government, to the municipalities,
02:19and to the governorships and to ourselves.
02:21Measures must be taken in all sectors.
02:23from the agricultural sector, which could be greatly affected,
02:26even health issues or fires.
02:28As they wrote in El Espectador
02:30scientists Ángela Parrado and María Mesa Elizalde
02:34from the Biodiversity Group
02:36and who have studied the behavior of fire,
02:38This is a problem that can no longer be addressed
02:40only at the beginning of each dry season.
02:44They said we must overcome a predominantly reactive policy.
02:49and suppression and move towards integrated fire management.
02:53We need to invest before this happens.
02:56in knowledge, planning, prevention
02:59and fire management capabilities.
03:02Hopefully, as Professor Germán Poveda assures us,
03:05who has been studying the El Niño phenomenon
03:07since the 1990s,
03:08With so many warnings, let's not let it happen again this time.
03:12what he calls the hydrological cycle.
03:15Hopefully.
03:16And follow us on our social media channels
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03:22that we try to do serious environmental journalism
03:25and committed to science.
03:26Bye.
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