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Gulf of Maine has one of its warmest years ever in 2023 [Video]
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Gulf of Maine has one of its warmest years ever in 2023 [Video]

AS WE TOLD YOU FIRST THING THIS MORNING — WE HAVE NEW INFORMATION ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE RIGHT HERE IN MAINE. AN ANNUAL REVIEWBY THE “GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE” SHOWS OUR COASTAL WATERS REMAIN WELL ABOVE AVERAGE. PHIL HIRSCHKORN SPOKE TO THE STUDY’S LEAD SCIENTIST FOR THIS “FORECASTING OUR FUTURE” REPORT. (VO 1) TODAY’S REPORT SHOWS 2022 WAS THE SECOND WARMEST YEAR EVER RECORDED IN THE GULF OF MAINE, 36- THOUSAND SQUARE MILES OF WATER STRETCHING FROM MASSACHUSETTS TO CANADA. (GFX) THE AVERAGE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE WAS 53.66 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT, WHICH WAS 3.72 DEGREES ABOVE THE LONG-TERM AVERAGE…JUST 4- TENTHS OF A DEGREE BELOW THE RECORD SET IN 2021. (SOT 15:20:16) “THE TREND IS UNAMBIGUOUS.” (VO 2: TWO SHOT) REPORT CO- AUTHOR DAVE REIDMILLER IS CLIMATE CENTER DIRECTOR AT THE GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE. (SOT 15:24:38) “YES, 2022 WAS THE SECOND WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD THAT WE’VE EXPERIENCED HERE IN THE GULF OF MAINE. BUT IT’S PROBABLY GOING TO BE ONE OF THE COOLEST YEARS WE EXPERIENCE GOING FORWARD.” (VO 3) NINE OF THE 10 WARMEST YEARS FOR THE GULF OF MAINE IN THE LAST DECADE. THE GULF ALSO WARMING FASTER THAN 97% OF THE WORLD’S OCEAN WATERS. (SOT 15:22:18) “THE RATES OF SEA LEVEL RISE HERE IN THE GULF OF MAINE ARE FASTER THAN MOST OTHER AREAS IN THE WORLD AS WELL.” (VO 4) JUST AS A FEW INCHES OF SEA LEVEL RISE GREATLY INCREASES THE RISK OF COASTAL FLOODING, THE SAME GOES FOR A FEW DEGREES OF WATER TEMPERATURE, AS REIDMILLER LIKENS THE OCEAN TO THE HUMAN BODY. (SOT 15:17:02) “JUST LIKE OUR BODY, IF WE GET A FEVER OF A COUPLE OF DEGREES, WE’RE GOING TO FEEL A LITTLE BIT ACHY. IF WE START GETTING THREE, FOUR OR FIVE DEGREES ABOVE OUR NORMAL OPERATING TEMPERATURE, SYSTEMS CAN START TO SHUT DOWN, AND THAT’S REALLY KIND OF WHERE WE ARE NOW IN THE GULF OF MAINE AND FRANKLY, IN OCEANS AROUND THE WORLD.” (PHIL SU CLOSE) REIDMILLER SAYS THERE’S REASON FOR WORRY AND FOR HOPE: THAT WE KNOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS CAUSED BY CARBON EMISSIONS FROM BURNING FOSSIL FUELS, BUT RAISED AWARENESS OF THE PROBL

Russia renews attacks on Ukrainian energy sector; Kyiv responds with drones [Video]
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Russia renews attacks on Ukrainian energy sector; Kyiv responds with drones [Video]

Russia launched a barrage of missiles against Ukraine overnight, in attacks that appeared to target the country’s energy infrastructure. Meanwhile, Russia said its air defense systems had intercepted more than 60 Ukrainian drones over the southern Krasnodar region.Related video above: House approves $95 billion in aid for Ukraine, Israel and othersUkraine’s air force said Saturday that Russia had launched 34 missiles against Ukraine overnight, of which 21 had been shot down by Ukrainian air defenses.In a post on Telegram, Minister of Energy Herman Halushchenko said energy facilities in Dnipropetrovsk in the south of the country and Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv in the west had been attacked and that an engineer was injured.Private energy operator DTEK said four of its thermal power plants were damaged and that there were “casualties,” without going into detail.Earlier this month, Russia destroyed one of Ukraine’s largest power plants and damaged others in a massive missile and drone attack as it renewed its push to target Ukraine’s energy facilities.Ukraine has appealed to its Western allies for more air defense systems to ward off such attacks. At a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group on Friday, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the U.S. will provide Ukraine with additional munitions and gear for its air defense launchers.Further east, a psychiatric hospital was damaged and one person was wounded after Russia launched a missile attack overnight on Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv. Photos from the scene showed a huge crater on the grounds of the facility and patients taking shelter in corridors. Regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said a 53-year-old woman was hurt.Also in the Kharkiv region, a man was killed in an overnight attack on the city of Vovchansk, according to Ukraine’s State Service for Emergency Situations.In Russia, the Defense Ministry said Russian air defense systems had intercepted 66 drones over the country’s southern Krasnodar region. Two more drones were shot down over the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula.The governor of the Krasnodar region, Veniamin Kondratyev, said that Ukrainian forces targeted an oil refinery and infrastructure facilities but that there were no casualties or serious damage. The regional department of the Emergency Situations Ministry reported that a fire broke out at the Slavyansk oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban during the attack.Ukrainian officials normally decline to comment on attacks on Russian soil, but the Ukrainian Energy Ministry said Saturday that two oil refineries in the Krasnodar region had been hit by drones.Five people were wounded in a drone attack in a border village in Russia’s Belgorod region, regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said.