Copernicus climate report: Global temperature streak continues

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00:00 Recent record-breaking floods in Brazil, Kenya and Tanzania, droughts in Botswana and Colombia

00:08 and unprecedented heatwaves in Southeast Asia have all highlighted what scientists have

00:13 long been warning - with climate change comes more extreme weather events.

00:19 And now more records have been broken.

00:21 April was the hottest on record and the 11th consecutive month to break its own heat record,

00:27 according to the EU's climate change agency Copernicus.

00:30 "We are moving in a climate that is already, as of today, very different from the climate

00:38 we grew up in, the climate our civilisation has evolved to cope with.

00:42 That's already what we have now and what we do know is that the future, one cool down,

00:47 the future will be more of the same."

00:50 The latest data brings the average for the last 12 months to 1.61 degrees Celsius, higher

00:56 than the 1.5 degree goal that countries agreed to under the Paris Agreement to avoid disastrous

01:02 consequences of warming.

01:05 April also marked 13 months of high sea surface temperatures, which according to the IUCN

01:10 can cause coral bleaching, impact marine ecosystems and species and threaten food security.

01:17 It's also a direct threat to the planet which needs oceans to absorb greenhouse gases.

01:22 While the El Nino phenomenon is also a factor in warming surface waters, scientists are

01:26 concerned that they have retained heat after its waned.

01:29 "This is what's most puzzling, is that despite the end of the El Nino event, the sea surface

01:41 temperatures, the global sea surface temperature remains so high."

01:45 While not all scientists see eye to eye on whether the Paris Agreement can realistically

01:49 be met, they are overwhelmingly urging governments to cut CO2 emissions faster to limit damage.

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