Deadly Heat Wave ‘Would Have Been Virtually Impossible’ Without Climate Change

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Deadly heat wave would have been impossible without climate change:

A farmworker, who declined to give his name, wipes sweat from his neck while working, Thursday, JulyASSOCIATED PRESSThe heat wave would have been 3.6 degrees cooler without the impact of climate change, according to scientists with, a collaboration of scientists at Oxford, Princeton, the Red Cross and government weather institutes in the U.S., France, and Holland.

The heat wave would have been 150 times less likely to happen without climate change, the scientists wrote. Scientists said they did not know if the heat wave was a result of “bad luck” exacerbated by climate change or if climate change itself “altered conditions [to be] conducive to heat waves.”

 

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