Blistering heat that has baked swathes of North America and Europe this month would have been 'virtually impossible' without the impact of the climate crisis, researchers say
The study also found that these heatwaves were hotter than they would have been without climate crisis. / Photo: AP
"The role of climate change is absolutely overwhelming," said climate scientist Friederike Otto, of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London.Scientists have already established that the climate crisis with about 1.2 degrees Celsius of global warming since the late 1800s has made heatwaves in general hotter, longer and more frequent.
And they will become even more frequent happening every two to five years — if the temperature rise reaches 2 degrees Celsius, expected in around 30 years unless countries fulfil their Paris Agreement pledges and rapidly cut emissions.
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