July Heat Waves ‘Virtually Impossible’ Without Climate Change
July 25, 2023
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as posted by the channelThis summer’s extreme heat in the US and southern Europe would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change, according to a rapid analysis by scientists who study how climate change influences extreme weather events.
The international scientific project World Weather Attribution found that peak heat this July — with temperatures over 45C in Mexico and the western US, southern Europe and the lowlands of China — was made more likely and more severe by human-induced climate change. In Europe and North America, the heat waves would have been almost impossible, while China’s heat was made 50 times more likely by climate change.
“In the past, these events would have been extremely rare. So it would have been a huge chance, or basically impossible, that they would happen at the same time,” said co-author of the report Friederike Otto, senior lecturer in climate science at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London, in a press briefing.
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