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the, the storing temperatures fitting ray colds around the world and severe floods and storms are becoming more frequent and unpredictable. so how does this is where the conditions differ from those before? and what is that telling us? this is inside the store, the to hello, welcome to the program. i'm telling the cry more regions are experiencing extreme
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weather conditions and some places that means storing temperatures. wallen, others, catastrophic flooding and face storms. india, for example, is in the middle of its longest heat wave on record. and china is national major a logical sense that has just issued an alert warning of scorching temperatures in many regions. southern provinces that by contrast of preparing for severe floods and heavy rains, the acropolis and athens has been shocked by extreme heat. while in florida, people in urban areas being boned of life threatening floods. but we're, if you are watching us now that with a may be telling its own story. so what is the message we are seeing this year and what will be its impact on people's lives right around the world. we'll be discussing this and printing more without guests and we'll take a closer look at the world with a picture with. i'll send you a meteorologist wrote mckelly and just a moment. but 1st this report from laura con. content is known with panoramic coast to abuse,
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but the shape of this coastline and bundle dish is southern tip is changing drastically. the sea is pushing into the land of one of the smallest rates globally killing crops on affecting water supplies. fishermen abdul aziz move to this area of the village was swallowed up by the indian ocean in 2007. now his lunch is get at risk. told me that was because my land is inside to see the fish assuming on my land off to the cycle and in 2007, we moved here and have been living here until now. the sea has reached yeah. since been the government's investigation found sea levels of being driven higher, i always kept building thousands of columbus as a way it'd be lost. i should give the but they see, according to an i p c said report in recent decades, the sea level is 3.7 millimeters each year, globally, nearly 1000100 but displace internally because ever been in fact and for security.
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last month, the u. n. wants that the world is at a tipping point, moving, sees a melting pool accounts, a making ocean which is more acidic, that's destroying car rates. the amazon for us to seeing warming temperatures causing more droughts. and wald fi, as it says, continued use of fossil fuels, like gas or oil, and coal is pushing greenhouse emissions higher and further heating the planet report by climate science use organization. climate central says of the 12 months since last may 6 point 3000000000 people experience at least 31 days of extreme heat. human cause. climate change created 26 days, rec, stream 8. and it forms that these climates events are pushing billions of people at risk. and those at risk often live in the course communities affected by many factors. a severe water crisis is a fact to 48000000 people in sit down
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a bit more soaring temperatures. to you and says, even before the war, a quarter of the population had to wolf fidelity an hour or the average to get moved to west asia. so the wolf also say plumb records and he today to death to recorded in going to 1700000 people already display spike is russ will just one example of how extreme heat is punishing an already fragile community nor homes inside story out to 0. so just how hold is it getting his house and you meet your ologist robot. kelly with a snapshot of global hotspots about 25 years ago. this attempt to reco with berkeley is by small in about and say point to one degree we investigate. we could send it, it goes in the book. so the record. now, if a temperature record is broke, this awesome 5 degree or more. this is the new, know it is also investigated concert and it goes down as the due record. now some
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things influence these temperatures. el nino is an event you've probably heard of major l need. you haven't. in 1997, the temperatures in india broke very close by degree or so this was abnormal, but it was attributed laundry to el nino. but when you don't have an avenue event and they are regular, they've been recorded throughout many hundreds of years, then something else must be influencing regularly broken records. and i think you know what it is. let's take a look at a snapshot which is the last week on june the 7th. in s, one in egypt, 50.9 was recorded as a new to record for the city. it's a new record for egypt. for anybody. yeah. and for the hold of, i forget, which is also a new june record. now this williams, of course, has spread elsewhere across the other side of the red sea. even today, the 1st day of the, the other is, is much, far from it should be neck as a heat wave warning item. there means to cool people, then this is the new, you know, maybe and have a look at this. a full costs for the motor wants to you notice how back back that
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50 degrees. we wouldn't to put a full cost of $50.00 degrees on to any maps a couple of years ago. he's now is regularly up there in iraq as an example on cost space in the world of mississippi, in the same part of the world as a current heat wave in complex times. it's 10 degrees hoffman. it should be in this particular city. not quite sure reco, but hey, it might just reach that, that will these cities are continental, so you do tend to get quite extremes in the, in the summer, on the winter, over these on your records. how about the islands? that'd be small items, do not break records very often, but this is today's batch. dominique or in mouth and eat lots of expressions trickle by a degree. i still think i know to go with small island haven't quite broken racquel, but much often we should be in his spaniard. the reason full base is not just in the caribbean, but the kind of being was at least 2 degrees. wouldn't. they should be based on the long term average. this past was the atlantic is 3 degrees, wilma, based on the tim average, the pacific of the whole,
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the atlantic in various places. i'll vote more than they should be. and they all contributing to close the ad that is drawn into small islands. so you go to a boost with a drill, so you're going to break your wreck or give them the right conditions. and that's basically what we're talking about. the big heat store of the ocean is the robot. so on the west that is driven by the ocean, and that's most of it is going to be effectively, either wilma went to one existence in the case of directs. and of course in the winter, you can also get much co dispels. yep. global warming can produce extreme cold. but basically we've added energy to the atmosphere. we've added the energy to the waters. they are obviously water and the result is extreme weather. can you spring in august now and geneva is linear. withdraw him who is the director of construction and health and safety building and would work his international and in utrecht. caroline
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a perrera market on the hate risk consultant at the red cross. rid crisen climate center and in athens. aline marverly is the global chief heat officer at the atlantic councils. adrian ashed, rockefeller foundation resilience center. thank you very much for joining us here on inside story. we really do appreciate your time and your insight into clearly what is the very, very important topic, carolyn of, i can begin with you as we heard there in the, in the story and from rob. these events are becoming more extreme and dangerous. last year was the hardest on record this year is already we've seen breaking records. is this all happening much, much faster than anyone anticipated? yes, thank you tom. it is indeed happening much faster than we had anticipated. so now we are able to look at the impact that climate change is having on these type of extreme heat events. and what our studies consistently show is that climate change is making every heat wave more frequent and extreme. or this is
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a really extraordinary results. and we really need to prepare more more urgency for the heat that we are seeing across the world. any, you're the 1st, the world's fiscal level hate officer. can you just explain exactly what that means? what is it that you actually do? the city's needs see, these are shooting up faster than any other part of the world. and we need to help see these to prepare and to create policies and to make sure that they save their most valuable communities from extreme sheets. but also that they, they are still uncomfortable in the next couple of decades as see, these are warming up, as i said, much, much faster than the global average. so it's most the protection of the most of the communities as well as how can we makes it is more spill livable and sustainable and beautiful for the years to come here. obviously that is
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a very significant job. so thank you very much for joining us here. and, and giving us your time. lynette, i understand you were in the philippines of the construction site just a month or so ago when we saw the temperatures really saw the can you just give us an idea of the conditions that people are having to work in at this point in time? yes, thank you for the good. um yeah, we did an inspection on our construction sides building the railway projects outside monday. loved in the end of april where we had $47.00 degrees during those section. and what do you see at the scientists? unfortunately not that much, but changes in the sense the workers are still working in the scoring hate. they have the same grades and what we could see, especially on the side we, we were excited to see some best practice in the sense that they had the color
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coordinated system of having a red flag. but when you asked the employers what was happening with the red flag as nothing changes. so you can see that this coming up the wireless into the sector, but not the actual practical changes for the workers on the ground. so that was a very telling example. we had an inspection, the 1st thing when you toast inspection, we asked what was wrong and they kept trying to come up with a correction officer to say like that. and it was simple. the inspection shouldn't have happened. they shouldn't have done any work and signed, and i think that's really what we're seeing more and more often now in our section . and so i'm seems to be pointing that this is going to be happening more and more frequently last year, almost 80 percent of people experience at least $31.00 days of extreme hayes. i mean, oh sons seem to point towards more of these extreme weather events and for them to get worse, caroline,
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can you just explain why that is happening and just how concerned should everyone be right now? yes, so as we've all seen in the past year has been the hardest, the by a large margin and we, we, the records are, are not stopping. so the past 9 years have been the hardest to record this year. again, we're seeing more records being broken. so it's really a continuous, a breaking of records that we're seeing here. so also countries that have been a tradition, the funds are becoming much hotter than they have been, and regions that, that are traditionally less hard are experiencing, keep that they've not seen either. i'm so so we, in our analysis that we've done on he twice over the past year, we have found that, you know, over 70 extreme heat waves occurred only in one year across 90 countries. worldwide, and climate change out in $26.00 days of extreme heat. in that year so that so
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that's, i mean that's almost a month of extreme climate change added. so that's a significant result. if you ask me for sure, as we hear the 76 extreme, he wives across 90 countries and they need this clearly as a global problem. right. and requires a global response. it. how do i mean? do you feel like there has been a real lack of action and, and how frustrating is that as well it's, it's kind of new that people are starting to realize that even though we've been talking about global warming, that heat is actually going to be one of the issues that are going to be the most dangerous of the most problematic for our populations around the world. and the problem with keith is that it's, as you said before, and if i believe it's a silent skinner, so you don't really see sheet and it's really difficult to report on sheep. and
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it's really difficult to show the effect. so she, because it doesn't really kind of destroy buildings or you know, creates a reverse out of street. so it's kind of weird and silent, and it tends to, to focus on the most vulnerable of our populations to the old, our holder, our tourist, our youngest daughter, people with preexisting conditions, women, like as you, as you know, women are particularly vulnerable to extreme sheets because they work both in the title of jobs, like for example, in india, we have the highest percentage of people working in construction is women which, you know, we don't expect to kind of know or the women also do a lot of informal work, which is, you know, the getting the water so they have to walk longer, taking care of the most vulnerable, having to cook. so again,
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they are much more apart from working. they actually kind of end up being exposed to extreme, shoot for much longer periods of time, etc, etc. so, so all of these facts are starting to be more unknown. there's more research on it and varies clearly. there is more evidence that we are, we have enormous mortality and morbidity numbers, linked with sheep and people are waking up to it very fast. so the last 2 years, cities have been and governments have been re, the waking up to this and, and actually starting to do things. but, you know, don't spill today. we have, we've put very little funding behind the climate change and i'm not even talking about either patient and resilience stuff. but generally, globally, the amount of money that we, we, we give to climate action is like i, i know the numbers for 2022. it was $1.00 layer of this $1.00 and
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beyond only $62.00 being the went to the station and really now square, which means just kind of efforts to protect people and protect. um, you know, i go systems, economies, infrastructures, etc, etc. right, so these, the, this is a tiny amount, but even for the $1.00, and it's time me, the amount of premiums that we gave for colvin. globally in the year 2020 was over at $113.00. and then just to give you a sense of, of comparison, right? i mean, we are at $1.00 and we need closer to $93.00 of them a year if we are, that's what the, the experts tell us if we are to keep things around or be able to degree celsius. so we're really low at the same thing. so this is frustrates me that you know, we still are not funding enough and we still don't have, you know,
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enough kind of robust governments to kind of help us with it. it seems like uh, people like you say, uh, becoming more, more aware of the issue with seeing it, you know, with heat waves and flooding and hurricanes, right around the world in a more frequent basis. but yet that isn't actually uh, moving into action from governments. caroline, can you just explain how close we add to this 1.5 percent tipping point? and how close are we have we actually gone over that with the record heat wave last year. and what we're seeing, so 5 this year, cuz obviously many people are predicting that this june, july, august is going to be even hotter than last. yes. so, so different regions around the world, some are warming faster than others. so for example, the european continent does is warming twice as fast as others. so across some regions, we are seeing a much more rapid warming than others. and i'll leave it to the climate scientists
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to go into tipping points. but one thing that is, is clear is that she will continue to rise even if we stop now with our emissions. so, so it is really important that we continue to raise awareness and start, you know, communicating better what people can do to protect their, their, their bodies and themselves against the next to that it's, it's not only would people should do, but as many it has, it has as clearly state that it's, it's the funding, it's a government preparedness that, that should really improve and, well, we have seen so many people push towards the end. the, i know you want us to jump in, they, what did you want to say? i agree that we know tipping points as a whole we leave it to the, to the experts, but i just wanted to kind of say that the average temperature that we went up for 2023 global the temperature was 1.46. so, you know,
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we've jumped from 1.2 that we were in 2022 global average global the temperature to 1.46. so we're really, really close to $1.00 and they were days for the 1st time in 2023 that we crossed at 2 degrees celsius. he meant that we, we have tried to set to ourselves. so, i mean, a couple of days doesn't really do anything, but we are quickly going that way, which everybody's really worried about it. yes. and is alarming alarming numbers. another alarming number is the international labor organization to city mealy, $19000.00 work has di every year to, to hate wives. and uh, can you just explain to us it must be very difficult to try and pin down exact numbers when it comes to, to work. is this, do you think that there was an underestimation of these hate related mortalities? yeah, i think that's what we're really struggling with us. the some of the previous biggest
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said is full. so some of the illnesses have a long term effects. and then especially in our sectors where there's a lot of informal labor, they're not tracked. but we do see still with only the numbers we have that it is really increasing. and i think the same report from dialogue says that if we go over the $1.00, which is still a low estimate, which many says now we will have more than 300 percent or 370 percent. and more we paint related deaths by 2050. and we also see is that we lose a lot of working hours and i think that's something that many forgets and what better costs, and that's something we really working. oh, it's waist them. if you don't have 1.5 degrees suite, the estimates of a 1000000 full time jobs equivalent of ours. if we go to 2 degrees,
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sweetheart of 236000000 working hours, which is around 4 percent of all the global working hours. so who backs that cost and we're trying to make sure that it's not the work this that's gonna lose on income. because what happens is that in for all jobs, especially you yes, on top of it's too warm today. if we manage to get that people say ok this to want to work, then they also say it's to one today, you're not going to be paid today. he has called coming to work and we really see that this is affecting more and more workers losing income, but also getting the house related to the long term effects which aren't for awhile . so yeah, it's key questions, not in sun prairie. hard to settle these. yeah, and i need to think the companies and governments are actually doing enough to protect it's weird because we have a great, a great example which took place in india with the with say, well,
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which is the self employed women's association, which is this association actually. and pulls together as 3 medium women of self employed women, which are, which really have the worst saying jobs that you can imagine. and um, and we might as together with the equipment to design a type of insurance tool, a fire metric insurance tool. not only to make sure that women are informed about the risk and when they are at risk, but also give wraparound services, which means like special blogs. so that the, the work with the women working in construction don't have to burn their hands when they're moving metals. are so we're going to stop, but also it gives them their, their, their, their labor, their daily wages. it releases the daily wages when temperatures go above a specific crown at the fresh hole. and which is
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important because it's a choice between as we said before, their lives or feeding their tubes, right? so it's these, these type of the know what these tools we have to keep on building on them to make sure that the most vulnerable people are the ones that are taken care of in, i know you want us to jump in there and add something. obviously to those in the poorest countries, the most vulnerable of the ones who are going to be the worst affected, isn't it? yeah, definitely. and i'm just happy that you bring, bring, obviously you most us one or organization stance. so a to, to us there's been a project within the whole list and also not that nice, let them network is a punch that wants to do the research crank right now. so it's something that we're working very closely with. but i also think it highlights the need to really do corporate rates between the workers and the lawyers because there's no one else is going to know what is needed, what is the biggest house they have to work?
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so we see really that we're getting in some collective bargaining agreements, the special permissions and goals. so that's where we're really trying to make the way because we do need the governments to and to get involved. but we also need to make sure and that, that is part of the collective bargaining process that the work this voice is so hutton this because it's often because the top down approach while it is the work, it's just kind of bring up the issue to, to have a time we've seen, for example, many of our workers work and or have housing provided. and together with researchers, we see she can show that you really need to bring down your body temperature. that's how you don't build to need stress cuz it's a killer to build up in your body so it can never go down below 30 degrees. this when you come to lodge issues. oh okay, that's great. we're going to go to,
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sorry to interrupt. we're going to go to a minute. we'll start left carolina. i mean, experts have been warning about this for years for decades now in the world, seemingly being crippled by an action way of saying, you know, very little actually happen. know enough money put into into climate change. and then of course, plenty of climate skeptics out there. how do you change the messaging to get through to them, to change people's minds to actually do more now? so unfortunately, good preparedness often comes after a big crisis. so, so for example, in europe, in 2003 actually we had this devastating heat quick that only afterwards government started to really wake up and prepare. and since then, a lot of european countries have heat action plans. they have heat wave warning system. so, you know, since then a lot of time us progress and i think we need to revisit those and, and maybe, you know, start improving them them as well. but i think this,
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this just shows that sometimes the extreme situations are, you know, unfortunately the, the, the main uh, yeah, how can i say that accelerator of, of, of change and i, i hope we don't get to some of those crisis these i think as a and then he has already mentioned, governments are starting to slow the wake up as we're seeing not only records being shot or, but also them coming together with a lot of, you know, other types of vulnerabilities increasing. so our health systems are water. energy systems are under pressure and climate change is just, you know, adding another layer to these already existing crises that we have around the world. as i do hope that we can work towards more, you know, intersect oral plants that, that's, that's relates to different disciplines. and look at the problem in a holistic way because climate change, you know, it's,
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it's not just making the summer's hotter, but it's also making some winters whether it's really bringing a lot of different crises together. it certainly as, as, as what we have seen today. thank you so much for joining us, lynaya carolina, and allow me thank you so much. we really do appreciate your time and your insight into all of this. and thank you uh to for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting a website. that's l just here adults. com for further discussion. go to our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash h a inside story. you can also join the conversation on x. a handle is at a inside story from a tell mccrae and the whole thing. bye for now. the working class community driven football club. some remarkable friends.
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