Listen 8 min Comment on this story Comment Gift Article ShareThe results came with a sobering reminder: Once unfathomable heat waves are not only happening, but becoming more common. Ultimately, they found that the heat waves that baked the Southwest and southern Europe would have almost no chance of happening in a world without climate change. AdvertisementIn recent years, the group has used such methods to identify dozens of heat waves, extreme rainfalls, hurricanes, droughts and floods made more likely or more intense by climate change. As extraordinary as this month’s heat waves would have been not so long ago, they are becoming less extraordinary. Heat waves will grow more fierce and more prolific, offering only a glimpse of potentially hotter stretches ahead.

Source: Washington Post July 25, 2023 11:45 UTC