Deadly North American Heatwave Would Be Virtually Impossible Without Climate Change
ISSAM AHMED, AFP
8 JULY 2021
A record-breaking heat wave that hit the western United States and Canada at the end of June would have been virtually impossible without human-caused climate change, according to an analysis by a group of leading climate scientists.
The World Weather Attribution group said that global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions, made the heat wave at least 150 times more likely to happen.
Pacific Northwest areas of the two countries saw temperatures that broke records by several degrees, including a Canadian record of 49.6 degrees Celsius in the village of Lytton, which was subsequently mostly destroyed in a wildfire.
US and Canada heatwave virtually impossible without climate change, analysis shows
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