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Unleashing at least 24 tornadoes across five states. >> at number three, tornadoes in winter. december usually brings the fewest tornadoes, but record warmth spun them up from arkansas to how. weeks later, the damage is still being tallied. two, the pacific northwest heat dome that pushed the mercury well over 100 degrees for days, creating a mass casualty event of creatures great and small. over a billion shellfish baked to death on the shores of british columbia. the little town of lytton broke the record three times, before most of it burned to the ground. number one, america's mega-dro...

One week earlier. that says to me that there are no more cataclysmic unforeseeable events. >> reporter: in august, the united nations' intergovernmental panel on climate change says it is, quote, unequivocal that humans have caused the climate crisis. the report confirms that widespread and rapid changes have already happened, some of them irreversibly. the lead author of that report, kim cobb, explains how the earth h has warmed more than 1 degree celsius since pre-industrial levels. >> we have known for decades that rise in fossil fuel emissions are driving warming across the planet. this wa...

Humanity. what could happen if no changes are made based on what the secretary general was saying there? >> well, what i think is kind of stunning about this report was that the urgency that was used in the language to describe some of these findings, and i think that's going to galvanize a lot of countries that have been feeling some of the effects of climate change in recent years. there's been flooding last month in europe. the wildfires in the west. mega drought. there's just no shortage of examples of how the planet is really being impacted by global warming. >> you know, denise, in your ...

Laurel told me yesterday. >> if there's not a decent rain within the next couple of weeks, period, we have to sell. we already have 200 ready to go. >> we're hopeful that the monsoon -- there's been a good monsoon in arizona so far and it's working itses way up this way. we're hoping and praying to god that the monsoon will continue and we'll be able to stay in business with the cattle that we have. >> reporter: this region of arizona relies on those monsoons, craig. we haven't had a normal monsoon season in three years. we're in the middle of a 21-year mega drought. you add to that, these fir...

Nbc's cal perry is in boulder city, nevada on the shores of lake mead. how are experts talking about this drought? >> reporter: well, we're in the middle of a 21-year mega drought. as you laid out this is a power story, a water story, an infrastructure story. i'll go ahead. we can push in and sort of give a look at the cliffs here. we really shouldn't be able to see these cliffs. the water has revealeded 140 vertical feet, 5 trillion gallons of water. it is remarkable to sort of see this. when we were driving in, the scale of this is really stunning. as you laid out california, nevada, arizona...