Climate change made heat waves in the U.S. Southwest, Europe and China hotter and more likely
Phoenix, Ariz., has had 25 consecutive days of temperatures above 110 degrees Fahrenheit amid the unrelenting heat dome that has been clamped firmly in place over the U.S. Southwest and Mexico. Meanwhile the township of Sanbao in the Xinjiang Uygur region of China, has set the country’s all-time record high temperature of 126 degrees F as parts of China have baked in a heat wave.
WWA researchers used peer-reviewed methods to look for the fingerprints of climate change in extreme weather events. They examined temperature trends over time and employed computer models to compare today’s climate with a theoretical world without human-caused climate change. The planet as a whole has warmed by about 2.2 degrees F since preindustrial times. Under the Paris climate accord, countries have agreed to limit global warming to “well under” 3.6 degrees F above preindustrial levels and to striving to limit such warming to 2.7 degrees F .
Heat-related deaths have been reported in all affected areas—including more than 200 in Mexico alone. But any current mortality tolls are almost certainly an undercount because it takes time to ascertain and record causes of death. Last year heat waves in Europe killed an estimated 60,000 people, a recent study found.
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