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Human-caused climate change dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this month’s killer heat that has been baking the Southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America, a new flash study found.
Sizzling daytime temperatures that triggered cases of heat stroke in parts of the United States were 35 times more likely and 2.5 degrees hotter (1.4 degrees Celsius) because of the warming from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, World Weather Attribution, a collection of scientists that run rapid and non-peer reviewed climate attribution studies, calculated Thursday.
“It’s an oven here; you can’t stay here,” 82-year-old Magarita Salazar Pérez of Veracruz, Mexico, said in her home with no air conditioning. Last week, the Sonoran Desert hit 125 degrees (51.9 degrees Celsius), the hottest day in Mexican history, according to study co-author Shel Winkley, a meteorologist at Climate Central.
And it was even worse at night, which is what made this heat wave so deadly, said Imperial College of London climate scientist Friederike Otto, who coordinates the attribution study team. Climate change made nighttime temperatures 2.9 degrees (1.6 degrees Celsius) warmer and unusual evening heat 200 more times more likely, she said.
There’s just been no cool air at night like people are used to, Salazar Pérez said. Doctors say cooler night temperatures are key to surviving a heat wave.
At least 125 people have died so far, according to the World Weather Attribution team.
The alarming part about this heat wave, which technically is still cooking the North American continent, is that it’s no longer that out of the ordinary anymore, Otto said. Past studies by the group have looked at heat so extreme that they found it impossible without climate change, but this heat wave not so much.
“From a sort of weather perspective in that sense it wasn’t rare, but the impacts were actually really bad,” Otto told The Associated Press in an interview.
“The changes we have seen in the last 20 years, which feels like just yesterday, are so strong,” Otto said.
Her study found that this heat wave is now four times more likely to happen now than it was in the year 2000 when it was nearly a degree (0.5 degrees Celsius) cooler than now. “It seems sort of far away and a different world.”
While other groups of international scientists — and the global carbon emissions reduction target adopted by countries in the 2015 Paris climate agreement — refer to warming since pre-industrial time in mid 1800s, Otto said comparing what’s happening now to the year 2000 is more striking.
The study looked at a large swath of the continent, including southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize and Honduras and the hottest five consecutive days and hottest five consecutive nights. For most of the area, those five days ran from June 3 to 7 and those five nights were June 5 to 9, but in a few places the peak heat started May 26, Otto said.
For example, San Angelo, Texas, hit a record 111 degrees (43.8 degrees Celsius) on June 4. Between June 2 and June 6 the night temperature never dipped below 80 degrees (26.7 degrees Celsius) at Corpus Christi airport, a record each night, with two days when the thermometer never dropped below 85 (29.4 degrees Celsius) according to the National Weather Service.
Between June 1 and June 15, more than 1,200 daytime high temperature records were tied or broken in the United States and nearly 1,800 nighttime high temperature records were reached, according to the National Center for Environmental Information.
The attribution team used both current and past temperature measurements, contrasting what is happening to what occurred in past heat waves. They then used the scientifically accepted technique of comparing simulations of a fictional world without human-caused climate change to current reality to come up with how much global warming factored into the 2024 heat wave.
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Its the end of the world as we know it, and I FEEL FINE! Zero fucks given
Yea it got shot every year in the southwest . Not as bad as when all the records were set back in the 1930s
White people have ideas about the earth, than do malenated folks, one cares about wealth, while the other values future generations.
Stop with the climate change propaganda.
Any intelligent and honest human being does NOT believe it.
Fuck off with your fake propaganda crap ………it is summertime in the desert
A weakening magnetic field is allowing in much more energetic particles and it will continue to weaken until the poles flip. Happens every 12k years and the people who push human caused global warming are making hundreds of billions of dollars lying to the public with scare tactics. It's going to get extremely catastrophic. They can't do anything about it. It's coming like clockwork. Day after tomorrow, revelations,… They've always known. They've always used that knowledge for control and monetary gains.
The main cause of climate change is rocks from space.Nobody is even talking about that.
BS
You are mistaking season change and climate change again. This is called summertime.
Most of the hottest Temp records recorded in the United States, are between 1911 in 1930….
Lmao @ "Turbo charged killer heatwave." These cabal propaganda news outlets are so see through with the agendas being pushed.
Ahh, found the source of hot air.
BWAHAHAHA! You are listening to extreme propaganda!
@1:26 – the fact that people have to be told it's too hot to hike here today but we can't trust you not to know that so they'll put up a sign that says this part of the outdoors is closed shows how stupid human beings can be.
They keep saying Human Caused climate change, rather than, Monster Caused (World Government) Climate Change. Their Secret Projects: HAARP, CERN. Don’t blame us foolish media!
War is a major contributor to climate change. We must shut down the Military-Industrial Complex which President Eisenhower warned us about.
It’s summer, it’s hot. Shut up.
“Turbocharged killer heatwaves”. The propaganda is getting desperate.
Killer heat wave? Don't say that unless you have some kind of verifiable proof that more people have died this year from the heat than other years. If it's illegals dying while crossing the border who cares. Nobody told them to do that. Serves em right
Lol! Climate change! You mean birth pangs that precede the coming tribulation? The Holy Bible predicted all of these signs, MORESO than the msm ever has or ever will! You ppl are responsible for 90% of the world’s problems…. Perpetuating lies & disinformation! Ppl are waking up to this. You’ll all answer for this.
A wise man told me,,temperature is not an exact science. Can you define a * degree ? A dollar or a gallon or a pound yes. A degree * ,, no
STOP GEOENGINEERRING, Google 'Bill Gates Geoengineering' for starters
Climate change is a hoax! Stop lying!
So many won’t care until they are impacted.
Yankees cooking
Ww3 close yankee boy
So dusty fan
https://youtu.be/B4Zq2pTAMaw?si=F00QpjV6ROOtsz78
Maybe China and India should improve their environmental policies. Two filthiest countries on Earth.
A quick and easy fix to stop Global Warming.
Turn off all air conditioners in government buildings worldwide – immediately. This will reduce global warming emissions by 10% to 15% immediately.
Turn OFF your Air Conditioner NOW. Air Conditioners produce 117 million metric tons of greenhouse gasses annually! A tremendous amount, especially considering only the Elite can afford to use them.
Our grandparents and most of the rest of the world live just fine without Air Conditioning, and you can too.
Save the Planet, Vote to turn off all Air Conditioning in all Government Buildings.
This Hot weather is Climate change all over the world just too much things going on a lot of countries and people don't have air condition and water if you look up the weather reports it will be for the next 2 months
This chart and numbers are wack. The weather patterns of earth change dramatically every 10k to 12k years. Weather has always been veritable. The Maldives (islands) they said were sinking; now they’re building hotels on them. The ice in the Bering Strait is thickening. The Great Barrier Reef isn’t dying, it’s growing just fine. The overall temp is lower than it has been in the entire history of earth along with CO2 levels. The ocean level is expected to rise above 1 inch in the next 100 years; so will the land. What’s happening is normal. Hurricanes are not happening more often or becoming more severe: look at the 1930’s. The horrible forest fires are happening because of poor forest management in not burning the under brush with controlled burns. Investigate and stop jumping on band wagons. Stop being a parrot.
This blog is bs. Its to the point of SEVERE hurricane season: global warming. MILD hurricane season: global warming. TOO much snow: global warming. MILD winter: global warming. It’s to the point of RIDICULES.
By volume, the dry air in Earth's atmosphere is about 78.08 percent nitrogen, 20.95 percent oxygen, and 0.93 percent argon, adding up to 99.96 percent. A brew of trace gases accounts for the other approximately 0.04 percent, including the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone. To think that a small increase (200 parts per million in the last hundred years) of carbon dioxide would affect the weather is absurd.