With a forceful "humanity has opened the gates of hell", the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, warned on Wednesday of the destructive consequences that extreme weather events aggravated by global warming are causing. In this way, Guterres wanted to make an appeal to avoid cascading climate disasters like those that the planet has suffered in recent months.
In that "hell" are the devastating fires in Canada, which have razed millions of hectares, or the record temperatures that have made this summer the hottest ever recorded. Climate change is causing this type of phenomenon to be "stronger and more frequent", as explained in the video that accompanies this news the journalist of EL PAÍS specialized in information on climate change, environment and energy Manuel Planelles.
