Published 3 years ago

U.S., Canada Heatwave ‘Virtually Impossible’ Without Climate Change, Study Finds

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The chance of temperatures in the Pacific Northwest region coming close to 50 °C has increased at least 150-fold since the end of the nineteenth century. The record-breaking heatwave lasted from 25 June to 1 July. More than 500 excess deaths and 180 wildfires were recorded in the western Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Times of India

Northwest heat wave impossible without climate change

The study, not yet peer reviewed, said that before the industrial era, the region's late June triple-digit heat was the type that would not have happened in human civilization. And even in today's warming world, it said, the heat was a once-in-a-millennium event.

3 years ago·India

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BBC News

Climate change: US-Canada heatwave 'virtually impossible' without warming

Without global warming, the searing heat seen in the western US and Canada "just doesn't occur," say scientists.

3 years ago·United Kingdom

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Yahoo News

Northwest heat wave "virtually impossible" without climate change, study says

Scientists say if Earth keeps warming on the current trajectory, heat waves of this magnitude will no longer be 1-in-1,000-year events — they will happen once every 5 to 10 years.

3 years ago·Los Angeles, United States

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News18 India

Record-Breaking Heat Wave in US, Canada Due to Human-Caused Climate Change: Study

Scientists found that if the planet were to warm by two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) heat waves like these would occur every five to ten years.

3 years ago·India

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The Independent

Study: Northwest heat wave impossible without climate change

A quick scientific study finds that the recent deadly heat wave in the Pacific Northwest would be virtually impossible without climate change

3 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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Reuters

Heat wave in Pacific Northwest could soon repeat due to climate change

By Andrea Januta - The suffocating heat wave that killed hundreds of people across the Pacific Northwest last week would have been "virtually impossible" without climate change, a study finds. Reporting the first research attributing the event to climate change on Wednesday, scientists said climate change had made such a heat wave in the region 150 times more likely. The scientists

3 years ago·United Kingdom

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