An international community of climate researchers reported on Thursday that the deadly heat that just engulfed the US, Mexico, and Central America was 35 times more likely as a result of global warming. Additionally, according to the World Weather Atlas, intense peaks in that area are four times as likely to occur now as they were a fourth of a decade ago.
For its study, WWA analysed the hottest five consecutive days and night during a “heat roof” that lingered over the south US, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras in late May and early June. According to them,” the five-day optimum temperature event was approximately 1.4 redder and about 35 times more likely” due to human-induced warming from burning fossil fuels. WWA warned that these ends might become even more numerous if people continue burning fossil fuels in the near future. The further 1.4C of temperature brought on by climate change makes a person’s life or death, according to Red Cross Climate Center’s Karina Izquierdo.
