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CLIMATE CHANGE / US HEAT RECORD
STORY: CLIMATE CHANGE / US HEAT RECORD
TRT: 2.00
SOURCE: UNTV / UNICEF / WFP / IFAD / MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 9 JANUARY 2012, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – IFAD - JANUARY 2012, NEAR APODI, RIO GRANDE DO NORTE, BRAZIL
1. Various shots, farmer hoeing dry ground
2. Various shots, field with burnt tree stumps
3. Various shots, goats eating on burnt, dry ground
9 JANUARY 2012, NEW YORK CITY
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcela Main, Head of UN’s Climate Support Team:
“We have seen already a global trend of global temperatures going above normal. By example of last year we have the 333rd month continuously that temperatures were above normal in the century. “
FILE – WFP - JUNE 2012, BUHERA DISTRICT, MANICALAND PROVINCE, ZIMBABWE
5. Med shot, feet of farmer while she goes over dried maize
6. Pan right, view of dried stalks
7. Wide shot, farmer looking at dried stalks
8. Tilt up, small dried corn ears
9 JANUARY 2012, NEW YORK CITY
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcela Main, Head of UN’s Climate Support Team:
“It’s an issue in Africa of course because of the food, but it is an issue everywhere, poor countries, rich countries. It is an issue for food for water for security for energy, for everything.”
FILE – UNICEF – 9 FEBRUARY 2012, MAURITANIA
10. Med shot, tilling ground
11. Med shot, carcasses dead cows
12. Wide shot, farmers tilling barren field
9 JANUARY 2012, NEW YORK CITY
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcela Main, Head of UN’s Climate Support Team:
“The weather pattern is associated with hurricanes, with waves, with tides, with wind patterns, with everything. And this is a connection, a phenomenon that we have seen already. “
FILE - MINUSTAH - AUGUST 2012, LA PLAINE IDP CAMP, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
15. Various shots, river overflowing
16. Med shot, two men walking in flooded river and carrying belongings
17. Wide shot, crowd walking in flooded river
18. Various shots, crowd walking on flooded road
19. Med shot, water streaming on flooded road with trees
20. Med shot, people holding each other while walking on flooded road
9 JANUARY 2012, NEW YORK CITY
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Marcela Main, Head of UN’s Climate Support Team:
“We are working both on mitigation, which is reducing the emissions that are causing the emission but at the same time we have to prepare communities, countries, cities to adapt to what is inevitable, and from that point of view we need to teach the people to secure their houses. It is an overall task for government for communities for the civil societies and the UN.”
A UN climate change expert said the announcement today that the US had the hottest year in is a phenomenon not confined to North America but is wide spread throughout the world.
Marcela Main, the head of the UN’s Climate Change Support team, said the UN had reported last November that that month was the 333rd month in a row that temperatures were above normal.
Main said the phenomenon was an issue in Africa because of existing food shortages, “but it is an issue everywhere, poor countries, rich countries. It is an issue for food for water for security for energy, for everything.”
The American report connected heat records and extreme climates with weather phenomena like hurricanes and storms, as did Main.
“The weather pattern is associated with hurricanes, with waves, with tides, with wind patterns, with everything. And this is a connection, a phenomenon that we have seen already,” she said.
Asked what the UN and the world could and should do, Main said, “we are working both on mitigation, which is reducing the emissions that are causing the emission but at the same time we have to prepare communities, countries, cities to adapt to what is inevitable, and from that point of view we need to teach the people to secure their houses. It is an overall task for government for communities for the civil societies and the UN.”
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