Europe's Hottest June on Record Traced to Climate Change
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She writes for energy websites and covers several other industries, as well as writing… Many countries across Europe have experienced the hottest June on record, as heatwaves sweep the region.
Countries in Northern Europe that are not used to weeks of 30°C-plus heat are suffering due to a lack of air conditioning and buildings ill-prepared for such heat.
Over 1,300 people died during the June heatwaves, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), demonstrating the severity of the issue.
Now, a recent study shows that climate change, as suspected, is to blame for the high temperatures.
Recent studies show that human-caused climate change contributed significantly to the extreme heat across Western Europe in June.
Emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases have been driving up global temperatures for over a century, initially spurred by industrialisation.
However, the rise in temperatures is occurring at a faster pace than in previous decades A team of scientists affiliated with the organisation World Weather Attribution assessed decades of temperature records to better understand the patterns.
It found that the extremely high temperatures across such a large part of Europe were unusual for June in today’s climate, with less than a 1 per cent chance of occurring in any given year.
The new report has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal, but it does offer some insight into the likely impact of climate change.
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It found that the occurrence would have been rarer in the 2000s, when the world was approximately 0.61°C cooler than it is now.
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