00:00This year's powerful El Nino and the record global heat it's driving along with severe drought, wildfires and shrinking water
00:07supplies
00:07could lead to nearly a half a million more deaths worldwide by the end of February according to a research
00:13report released on Wednesday.
00:15The grim warning by the University of Chicago-based Climate Impact Lab says that as many as 451,000 more
00:22heat-related deaths between June and the end of February could be attributed to El Nino.
00:27The El Nino is nothing new it's a natural phenomena climate phenomena that can you know temporarily amplify the global
00:35temperatures but the super El Nino which is happening now it is occurring against the backdrop of a planet which
00:41is already warming due to you know human-induced climate change and this combination can you know expose millions of
00:48people to dangerous heat.
00:50The researchers behind the report found that the Sahel regions in Africa countries along the semi-arid southern fringe of
00:58the Sahara desert is expected to be the hardest heat with about 66,800 additional deaths caused by El Nino
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