Climate in all states

In 2022, the number of disasters related to global warming has increased. The summer was the hottest ever recorded in Europe, with record temperatures and heat waves causing drought and dramatic fires, as in Gironde in the forest on the edge of the Dune du Pilat. More than 1,700 people have died in Pakistan’s historic floods linked to the extraordinary monsoon. In the USA, at the end of the year, a hurricane and a blizzard followed each other. Back, in pictures, on climate change highlights through 2022.

Production: Olivier JUSZCZAK

• On the evening of April 24, when Emmanuel Macron was re-elected as the president of the republic, this activist climate tries to challenge the public opinion about the state of emergency. Indeed, the year 2022 blew hot and cold to the climate.

• France recorded its coldest April temperature since 1947 on the night of Monday, April 4. In the vineyards, we fight against the effects of frost on the buds.

• In 2022, France will experience three heat waves and a record 33 heat wave days. The first is “exceptional and early”, 40 ° C in Herault from June 16 and 43 ° C in Arcachon (Gironde), with 18. This increases the already existing hydrometric deficit.

• A new peak falls on July 18 in the western half of the local temperature record of 64.

• The last heat wave, which is less intense but longer, occurs mainly in the Southwest in the first half of August. The heat and persistent drought lead to huge fires throughout the summer, especially in the Gironde, where in one week almost all the Pilate camps burned, several thousand people were evacuated and thousands of hectares of vegetation were destroyed.

• The last heat wave, which is less intense but longer, occurs mainly in the Southwest in the first half of August. Persistent heat and drought lead to huge fires throughout the summer, especially in the Gironde, where in one week almost all of the Pilate camps burned, several thousand people were evacuated and thousands of hectares of vegetation were destroyed.

• The summer is Europe’s hottest on record.

• Alpine glaciers record record loss of ice mass.

• Record temperatures and heat waves cause droughts and dramatic fires (a record 660,000 hectares of forest burned in the EU from January to mid-August).

• According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 15,000 deaths have been directly linked to the heat on the old continent.

• October is the hottest month ever recorded in France.

• The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns that if this year’s projections are confirmed, the eight years from 2015 to 2022 will be the warmest on record.

• In Sydney, Australia, it rained heavily for four days in July. Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated.

• Historic floods related to the extraordinary monsoon in Pakistan killed more than 1,700 people in late August and early September.

• Move eight million people while a third of the country is under water!

• As drought threatens famine in the Horn of Africa…

• Fires and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon are reaching new records.

• In early September, California as well as parts of Nevada and Arizona are experiencing scorching temperatures flirting with 45°C in some places due to a heat dome. In this suffocating atmosphere, several large fires engulfed the region, and the “Oak Fire” had already killed the region in July.

• Puerto Rico, Cuba and even Florida are subject to hurricanes. Ian, one of the most powerful storms to hit the United States, leveled entire neighborhoods and destroyed power lines and bridges along Florida’s southwest coast as it moved through late September. We regret the death of at least 62 people.

• Also in the United States, the “blizzard of the century” killed at least 53 people across the country in the middle of Christmas.

• In France, mild rains in recent days have disrupted ski resorts in the mountains, closing half of the slopes in France, while Canada has been left frozen.