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Recently, Western European countries suffered enormous damage from flooding for the first time in 100 years.
North America, across the Atlantic Ocean, is suffering from an unusual heat wave.
Even developed countries are unable to use their hands due to extreme weather conditions.
This is reporter Jeong Hye-kyung.
<Reporter> In the
village that was swept away by heavy rain, the sewer under the ground was exposed.
It is not easy to guess the previous shape of the red soil.
At least 180 people have been confirmed dead in the torrential rains that hit Western Europe last week, with hundreds more missing.
Infrastructure that had been strong in the unprecedented flood was swept away, and the cost of restoration is projected to reach astronomical levels.
[Angela Merkel / German Chancellor: It's terrible.
I can't think of a German
word
that can describe this catastrophe.] While
Europe is groaning in torrential rains, the North American continent across the Atlantic Ocean suffers from record-breaking heatwaves every day.
In western Canada, over 700 people died in a week in a deadly heat last month that reached close to 50 degrees Celsius.
In the western United States, more than 70 large-scale wildfires have occurred one after another, burning about five times the size of Seoul to ashes.
In Siberia, Russia, which is a frozen land area, wildfires continue every day due to unusually high temperatures.
The New York Times noted that "wealthy countries are facing a catastrophe of being struck simultaneously by extreme weather."
[Bob Ward/Policy Director, Grantham Climate and Environment Research Institute, UK: In fact, climate change is happening right around us, and if we continue to emit greenhouse gases like we do now, it will get worse.]
Experts say that the global abnormal climate phenomenon is There were concerns that it could affect supply and demand.
(Video editing: Yonghwa Jung)