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00:00Record-breaking temperatures in China and in Japan.
00:03Heatwaves in the United States.
00:06Massive fires in southern Europe like here in Spain.
00:10Extreme weather events continue to occur across the globe over the past three months.
00:14The summer of 2024 has broken last year's already record-breaker
00:19as the hottest recorded summer on earth.
00:22What we are seeing is not just a random fluctuation
00:27but is really there is a disproportional effect that is induced
00:31by this long-term accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
00:34The average global temperature on the earth's surface was 16.82 degrees in August
00:39according to Europe's climate service Copernicus.
00:42That is 1.5 degrees above the pre-industrial age average
00:46which is for scientists a key threshold
00:49when it comes to measuring the effects of human-made greenhouse gases
00:52and how they've warmed the planet.
00:54Capping climate change at 1.5 degrees was also the objective of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
01:0013 out of the past 14 months have surpassed that level.
01:05The record-breaking temperatures in June and in August
01:07were exacerbated by the warming El Niño phenomenon
01:11but it wasn't just El Niño.
01:13The main responsibility is really the anthropogenic climate change
01:18and the increase in greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.
01:20Copernicus says that the incoming cooling cycle, La Niña,
01:24will not likely bring the planet's temperatures down enough
01:27to keep 2024 from becoming the hottest year ever recorded.
01:32Scientists say that climate change is upon us and getting worse.
01:36The only thing to stop that cycle of death and destruction
01:39is to curb through our actions global emissions.