Climate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer, 35 times more likely - Post Register
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Spectators stand in the heat while waiting to watch players warm up prior to an international soccer friendly between Mexico and Brazil on June 8, 2024, at Texas A&M’s Kyle Field in College Station, Texas.
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A surfer rides a wave at Windandsea Beach on May 30, 2024, in San Diego.
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.
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