By Doyle Rice
June 20, 2024
Source: USA Today
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Here's a line you can use at the pool or beach this weekend: "Yep, it's climate change."
The deadly heat wave that scorched much of North America in early May and early June – and is still baking the central and eastern U.S. – was made 35 times more likely because of human-caused climate change, a scientific study released Thursday says.
The heat wave has killed at least 125 people and led to thousands of heatstroke cases in Mexico, where the heat was particularly intense. Scientists say heat waves will continue to intensify if the world continues to unleash climate-warming emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.
The study was done by World Weather Attribution, an international collaboration of scientists that studies the influence of climate change on extreme weather events.
Deadly and record-breaking heat
"Potentially deadly and record-breaking temperatures are occurring more and more frequently in the U.S., Mexico and Central America due to climate change," said study co-author Izidine Pinto, a researcher at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.
“The results of our study should be taken as another warning that our climate is heating to dangerous levels," he said.
The study focused on the Southwest U.S. and Mexico, as well as Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras, where temperatures were also extreme.
The heat has not been confined to the Americas: May this year was the hottest May on record globally and the 12th month in a row a hottest-month record was broken.
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