The Earth is warming, and at least 98% of the world’s population has been affected by this phenomenon in recent months. For example, there have been prolonged heat waves in North America and catastrophic wildfires in southern Europe, which have led to a significant rise in mortality. July was the hottest month on record, and the average temperature in August was 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
The report shows that carbon dioxide pollution from human activity has increased the risk of rising temperatures by at least twofold. “Almost no one on Earth has escaped the impact of global warming in the past three months,” Andrew Pershing, vice president for science at Climate Central, told Euronews. “In every country we surveyed, including the Southern Hemisphere, where this is the coldest time of the year, we saw temperatures that would be difficult — and in some cases almost impossible — without human-induced climate change.”
The research group is studying whether climate change makes heat waves more likely. They do this by comparing the measured temperature with simulations that do not include greenhouse gas emissions. This indicates that it would not have happened “without climate change.”
About 6.2 billion people would have seen at least one day of higher temperatures this summer, which was five times more likely to happen due to climate change.
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