The year 2022 has seen an increase in disasters linked to global warming.

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 at the edge of the Dune du Pilat.

In Pakistan, historic floods linked to an extraordinary monsoon have killed more than 1,700 people.

And in the United States, hurricane and blizzard followed one another at the end of the year.

Back, in pictures, on the highlights of climate change during the year 2022.


Directed by:

Olivier JUSZCZAK

  • On the evening of Emmanuel Macron's re-election as President of the Republic, on April 24, this activist tries to challenge public opinion on the climate emergency.

    Indeed, the year 2022 blew hot and cold on the climate.

  • In France, the night from Sunday to Monday April 4 recorded the coldest temperatures for the month of April since 1947. In the vineyards, we are struggling to counter the effect of frost on the buds.

  • In 2022, France will experience three heat waves and a record number of 33 days of heat waves.

    The first is "exceptional and early", with 40 ° C from June 16 in the Hérault and 43 ° C, the 18, in Arcachon (Gironde).

    This adds to an already present hydrometric deficit.

  • New peak on July 18, 64 local temperature records fall in the western half.

  • The last heat wave, less intense but longer, rages mainly in the South-West in the first half of August.

    Heat and persistent drought cause huge fires throughout the summer, especially in Gironde where almost all of the Pilat campsites burn in a week while several thousand people are evacuated and thousands of hectares of vegetation devastated.

  • The last heat wave, less intense but longer, rages mainly in the South-West in the first half of August.

    Persistent heat and drought cause huge fires throughout the summer, especially in Gironde where almost all of the Pilat campsites burn in a week while several thousand people are evacuated and thousands of hectares of vegetation devastated.

  • The summer is the hottest on record in Europe.

  • The glaciers of the Alps are recording a record loss of ice mass.

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

  • At least 15,000 deaths are directly linked to this heat on the old continent, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). 

  • October is the hottest month ever recorded in France.

  • If projections for this year are confirmed, the eight years from 2015 to 2022 will be the hottest on record, warns the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

  • Heavy rains hit Sydney, Australia for four days in July.

    Tens of thousands of people are evacuated.

  • In Pakistan, historic floods linked to an extraordinary monsoon kill more than 1,700 people in late August and early September.

  • And 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 reach new records in the Brazilian Amazon.

  • In early September, California, as well as parts of Nevada and Arizona, face scorching temperatures, flirting with 45°C in some places, due to a heat dome over the area.

    In this stifling atmosphere, several large fires ravaged the region, while the "Oak Fire" had already martyred the region in July.

  • Puerto Rico, Cuba and even Florida are struck down by hurricanes.

    Ian, one of the most powerful storms to hit the United States, flattens entire neighborhoods and destroys power lines and bridges on Florida's southwest coast as it passes through late September.

    We deplore at least 62 dead.

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

  • Canada is caught in the ice while in France the mildness accompanied by rains, in recent days in the mountains, has greatly disrupted the activity of alpine ski resorts, leading to the closure of half of the slopes in France.

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