Record heat driving severe storms, droughts, fires: study

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Record heat driving severe storms, droughts, fires: study

STORY: Record heat driving severe storms, droughts, fires: study SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 12, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 13, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:27 LOCATION: Canberra CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Australians enduring hot weather 2. Footage of Parliament House under the sun 3. various of a forest fire STORYLINE: Record-high global temperatures in 2023 exacerbated droughts, floods and wildfires, an Australian-led international research has found. The study, which was published by the Global Water Monitor Consortium led by researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) on Thursday, found that rising sea surface and air temperatures are driving the growing intensity and strength of monsoons, cyclones and other storm systems. Albert van Dijk, lead author of the study from ANU's Centre for Water and Landscape Dynamics and chair of the consortium, said in a media release that their findings prove that recent intense storms around the world are part of a global pattern. "In 2023, we saw cyclones behave

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