[Mirage shimmers on road leading to Indian Presidential Palace]
[Temperatures in India on 21 May 2023]
[Farmers working on flooded land]
[Flood water running through farm]
[Man walking through floodwater past homes]
Professor Tim Lenton (interview): “And so when we consider temperature and precipitation together, you get this interesting structure that is a big hump of people flourishing in the cooler conditions. There’s a sort of a warm, dry, less good for flourishing. And then there’s a sort of a hotter, wetter monsoonal climate flourishing. And then things drop off really sharply at higher temperatures.”
“I’m sincerely hoping this study does one little thing towards encouraging us to double up our efforts to limit global warming as close as we can to one and a half degrees centigrade and not go anywhere near 2.7 degrees centigrade because in simple terms, each point one degrees C of warming or warming avoided really matters. It can reduce the numbers exposed to unprecedented heat by 140 million people, each point one degrees C. So it is a spectacular amount to be gained in more decisive climate action.”
“If that gets to 35 degrees centigrade, we’re in grave difficulty or risk of dying because our body no longer has a way to cool itself, when it gets when that wet bulb gets about 28 degrees centigrade, we see various physiological challenges and problems start to kick in. And like all these things, they tend to be more acute for the elderly, the very young or the ill.”
[Family trying to cool down eating ice cream sitting under the shade of a tree]
[Pan off sign marking access to a water point]
[People drinking at water point]
[People pouring water in bowls for the birds to drink]
Dr. Friederike Otto (interview): “What this report highlights is that the hotter it gets, the more people will be living in these dangerous conditions and the more people will die from extreme heat. But I think it’s really important to highlight that there is nothing magic about 1.5 degrees. Already today. At 1.2 degrees, many people are dying.”
“We often don’t notice these deaths because people don’t drop dead on the street. But it’s usually those with least economic means who live in poor housing that die in in their homes and are, if ever (known about as), some statistics later.”
[Vegetable sellers and customers at market]
[Boat docked at Karampuang Island]
[Solar panel installed in a patio]
[Boat builder in workshop sanding wood]
[Coal mine]
[Crowded street with people walking in front of Delhi’s Red Fort]
This script was provided by The Associated Press.