Researchers say the deadly hot spells in the American Southwest and Southern Europe could not have happened without the continuing buildup of warming gases in the air.
Earth has been in about 120,000 years, easily the hottest of human civilization.
But the climate is not stabilized, even at this level. If it warms a few more tenths of a degree, this month’s heat will become even more common, Otto said. Phoenix has had a of temperatures at or above 110 degrees Fahrenheit and more than a week when the nighttime temperature never dropped below 90 degrees Fahrenheit
Because the weather attribution researchers started their analysis of three simultaneous heat waves on July 17, the results are not yet peer reviewed, which is the gold standard for science. But it used , the team’s research regularly gets published and several outside experts told The Associated Press it makes sense.
In Europe and North America, the study doesn’t claim human-caused climate change is the sole cause of the heat waves, but it is a necessary ingredient because natural causes and random chance couldn’t produce this alone.
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