US, Canada Heat Wave Deemed 'Virtually Impossible' without Climate Change, and Blame Battle Follows
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US, Canada heat wave deemed 'virtually impossible' without climate change, and blame battle follows
Online reaction to a punishing heat wave affecting parts of the United States and Canada has turned into a familiar climate dispute about accountability. After scientists said this level of heat would have been essentially impossible without global warming, the debate shifted to who should be held accountable for the damage. On Reddit, users split over whether the focus belongs on personal behavior, the pollution produced by major companies, or …
No, New York Times, Climate Change Isn’t Causing Modern Heat Waves - ClimateRealism
The New York Times (NYT) claims in “Without Climate Change, U.S. Heat Wave Called ‘Virtually Impossible’” that the recent Northeastern U.S. heat wave could not have occurred without human-caused climate change. This is false. The NYT bases its entire story on a model-driven analysis from a group whose sole purpose is to connect weather events to climate change, while ignoring the long observational record showing that severe heat waves have repe…
Scientists from the World Weather Attribution group published an analysis that shows that the warm and humid conditions that characterized the latest heat wave in the United States would have been "virtually impossible" without the climate change caused by humans.
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