 A father and son from Atlanta pose for a picture (Picture: Ronda Churchill/AFP) National Park Service Rangers join in the picture fun (Picture: Ronda Churchill/AFP) High temperatures are leading to chaos across the world – leading to the UN issuing a warning. The extreme heat scorching the US city of Phoenix, Arizona, has set a new record, the 19th consecutive day temperatures hit at least 43C in a summer of suffering echoing around much of the globe. As human-caused climate change and a newly formed El Nino are combining to shatter heat records worldwide, the Phoenix region stands apart among major metropolitan areas in the US. No other major city – defined as the 25 most populous in the United States – has had any streak of 43C days or 32C nights longer than Phoenix, said weather historian Christopher Burt, of the Weather Company. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) climate data scientists Russ Vose and Ken Kunkel found no large cities with that streak of warming, but smaller places such as Death Valley and Needle){kind=link}
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Tourists have ‘giddily’ flocked to Death Valley to try see a heat record broken.
Temperatures reached a shocking 55C.
People posed and smiled next to a digital temperature board as they celebrated the ‘exciting’ day out.