Here's how UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres started his press conference on climate

change at the end of July.

Humanity is in the hot sits.

And you can think of that as an extremely grim dad joke, because humanity really hasn't

ever been this hot.

The UN's world meteorological organization is still analyzing the final numbers, but

it's pretty likely that July was the hottest month in terms of the average global temperature

in recorded history, along with that heat has come a steady stream of climate-driven disasters.

For vast parts of North America, Asia, Africa, and Europe, it's a cruel summer.

Here in the U.S., there's been historically bad flooding.

The capital of Vermont tonight underwater shut down most of the day, authorities fearing

and nearby dam may not hold cities, blanket it in smoke.

Wildfires burning in eastern Canada are causing dangerous air quality conditions for millions

of Americans from New England, all the way down to Washington, D.C.

And heat wave after heat wave.

The death Valley California temperatures hit 125 degrees today, just five degrees shy

from the hottest temper recorded on Earth.

As Guterres put it, climate change is here, it is terrifying, and it is just the beginning.

The heat of global warming has ended the heat of global boiling as arrived.

And since this really is just the beginning, since summers like this one and worse can be

expected in the years ahead, we thought it would be worth checking in with some of the

people who live through July's climate-driven disasters to see what they were like first

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