Since 1880, the average temperature on Earth has increased by at least 1. 1°C. The culprit? Climate change, of course.
Getting hotter, faster
According to findings published through the World Weather Attribution (WWA) initiative, a global collaboration between scientists and climate specialists, record temperatures would have been up to 4°C lower without human-induced climate replacement. The day recorded in the United Kingdom (40. 3 °C) was recorded on July 19. WWA research also claims that weather replacement has made this heatwave 10 times more likely.
“In Europe and other parts of the world, we are seeing more and more record heat waves that cause excessive temperatures to heat up faster than in maximum climate models,” said Dr. Lisa S. Friederike Otto of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London. who also led the work of the WWA that conducted the investigation, on CNN. “This is a disturbing place that suggests that if carbon emissions are not temporarily reduced, the effects of climate will be replaced by excessive heat in Europe, which is already too deadly, it could simply be even worse than we thought in the past. “It states that we would expect such record temperatures between once every 500 years and once every 1500 years.
Dr Radhika Khosla from the Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment applauded WWA’s efforts: “By conducting immediate research based on established, peer-reviewed methods, the WWA team can achieve evidence-based effects in the public domain while we can all calm the major disruptions caused by last week’s excessive heat. This is the latest in a series of studies showing the same result: climate replacement makes heat waves more likely and intense. “
The heat is on
The scientists combined observations from temperature records over the years with weather styles, or simulations, to determine the human effect on excessive heat. “Because we know very well how many greenhouse gases have been emitted into the environment since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, we can remove those elements from the style and simulate a world that might have been without climate update,” Dr Otto told the BBC. “Every little warm-up actually makes those kinds of events more likely and even hotter. Heat waves are much more fatal than other extreme weather events such as flooding and climate change is a substitute for heat waves. “
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