2023-07-21 13:49:06
53°C in the United States, 52°C in China, 48°C in Sardinia… After the hottest month of June in history, the month of July was marked by exceptional heat waves throughout the northern hemisphere. The record for the highest heat ever recorded, 54.4°C in the shade, could even be broken in the aptly named “Valley of Death” in the United States.
This suffocating weather raises fears everywhere of fires similar to those who ravaged Canada or which are currently raging in Greece, but also waves of deaths among the most vulnerable. The heat domes responsible for this global phenomenon have an undeniable link with global warming.
Japan, meanwhile, issued heatstroke alerts on Monday for 32 of its 47 prefectures, which are experiencing temperatures close to the all-time high of 41.1°C reached in 2018.
Multiplicity of climatic perils
This country is also facing torrential rains which have killed nearly a dozen people. These bad weather threaten several regions of Asia, such as northern India where tens of thousands of homes have seen their homes flooded. South Korea is particularly bereaved, with dozens of dead as well.
And like the heat, the threat of the waters will get worse. In the Mediterranean, sea levels have risen by 2.8 mm per year in recent decades, threatening shorelines and cities like Venice, which is increasingly flooded.
“The rise in sea level is already affecting coastal waters around the Mediterranean and should increase the risk of flooding, erosion and salinization of the coasts”, underlines the IPCC.
In 2023, heat, droughts, and megafires compete with floods. It is this multiplicity of climatic perils that the designer illustrated Pedro x. Molina.
For more than twenty years, this artist from Nicaragua has told the world in drawings all over the planet.
These works have been published by world famous newspapers like Politico, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Courrier International. Today, his drawings appear daily on Confidencial.com.ni. He also contributed to the Cartooning for Peace collection published by Gallimard.
Cartooning for Peace is an international network of cartoonists committed to promoting, through the universality of press cartoons, freedom of expression, human rights and mutual respect between populations of different cultures or beliefs.
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