A world in 'climate shock'

South Asia Pakistan, where one-third of the country was submerged in the biblical deluge.


Europe, which recorded the worst drought in 500 years, with 64% of the total drought engulfed.


In the western United States, about 80 times the area of ​​Yeouido in Seoul was burned by wildfires caused by drought and heatwave.



The world is now suffering from unprecedented extreme extreme weather events.

According to a climate change report released last month by six international organizations including the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), climate disasters kill an average of 115 people a day and cause a loss of 280 billion won.


"Nearly every region is renewing record temperatures. Global warming is a reality we are facing."

(Shangping City, UC San Diego Scripps Ocean Research Institute, USA)


"The global temperature is rising at a really fast pace. From 2014 to 2021, the Earth's hottest years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are ranked. It's all occupied."

(Former director of APEC Climate Center Kwon Won-tae)


"There have been a lot of extreme weather events this year, but it's not at all strange that the record is broken next year."

(Professor Sangwook Yeh, Department of Marine Convergence Engineering, Hanyang University)

Unavoidable extreme weather

Korea is no exception.

Right now, in August, there was a record torrential rain in the central region, and in September, there were frequent typhoons-like extremes.

What is behind this global climate change?

In the case of the Korean Peninsula, an increase in the temperature of the Northwest Pacific Ocean near the Korean Peninsula is considered one of the causes of the extreme weather.

Pakistan's summer flood was a complex disaster involving a spring heat wave, alpine glacier thawing, and sea level rise.

The warning message that penetrates these phenomena is, after all, a 'warming earth'.



In this week's SBS News Story, we want to look at the abnormal climate phenomena in countries around the world that have stood out this year, and deliver analysis and response strategies from experts.