Global heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and floods as climate change bites
(21 Aug 2022) WORLD WEATHER SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS RESTRICTION SUMMARY: LENGTH: 7:42 ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Seville, Spain – 14 July 2022 1. Various of tourists in Seville using fans 2. Woman drinking water 3. Various of public thermometer showing temperature at 42 Celsius (107.6 Fahrenheit) ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Lake Velence, Hungary – 11 August 2022 4. Tilt down of dried out lake bed to goose 5. Boats stranded on dried out lake bed 6. Drone shot of dried out lake bed ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Rio Maior, Portugal - 17 August 2022 ++DUSK SHOTS++ 7. Wildfire seen through trees 8. Fire and rescue vehicle driving, smoke in background 9. Various of firefighters ASSOCIATED PRESS Inverness, UK - 16 August 2022 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Vikki Thompson, climate scientist, University of Bristol: "So there's been other summers that have been hot, other summers that have been dry. This summer, we've had record breaking heat in the UK, across France and northern Germany, Denmark. And we're seeing record low river levels across Europe as well. This combination is quite unusual. The wildfires on top of that, too, that's very unusual. We've been seeing wildfires in areas of Europe that just wouldn't expect to have that sort of impact from the heat and the droughts in the past." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Lux, Burgundy region, France - 9 August 2022 11. Various of staff from Bourgogne-Franche-Comté department fishing and aquatic environment protection federation walking through dry riverbed 12. Various of dead fish on dry riverbed 13. Federation staff walking on dry riverbed ASSOCIATED PRESS Inverness, UK - 16 August 2022 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Vikki Thompson, climate scientist, University of Bristol: "We can get heat waves in winter as well. It can be hotter than the usual expected temperature for winter. And although that won't have the same impacts on human health, it will have large impacts on ecosystems and particularly on agriculture. So this year it was very hot in April across a lot of Europe, and that will have led to changes in the growing seasons there, maybe things sort of started growing sooner, which is great, but also some things which be grown as they're supposed to. It will have impacted livestock. Things like sheep will have got hotter because they still have their fleeces that time of year." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: London, UK – 12 August 2022 15. Various of man sunbathing near Tower Bridge 16. Wide of dried out park 17. People sitting on benches beneath sun 18. Pull focus of dried out grass ASSOCIATED PRESS Inverness, UK - 16 August 2022 19. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Vikki Thompson, climate scientist, University of Bristol: "So for human health, heat is the biggest risk. When we have these heat waves, we get pretty large numbers of deaths, unfortunately. One good thing about heat deaths is they are preventable. Education and knowing the signs of heat stress can do a large amount in reducing the number of deaths. For droughts, the deaths are the less obvious, less instant. So we're not seeing such a big impact on human health from them in the current climate." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Bingen, Germany - 13 August 2022 20. Various aerial drone shots of Rhine river and its bank, river level lower than usual, with "Maeuseturm" in the middle of the river ASSOCIATED PRESS Oxford, UK - 18 August 2022 21. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Laurence Wainwright, Departmental Lecturer, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford: ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Sirmione, Italy - 12 August 2022 24. Pan right on people on the rocks Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
