How Climate Change Influenced the Hottest Summer on Record
Over the past three months, nearly half of the global population experienced at least 30 days of hot temperatures made more likely by climate change.
This summer was likely humanity’s hottest yet, with record-breaking heat in June, July, and August. Globally, those high temperatures were made far more likely by climate change, according to a new analysis from the nonprofit Climate Central, part of a growing body of attribution science that seeks to analyze if or how climate change is making extreme weather worse.
“One of the things that I think really emerges this summer is that nobody is safe from climate change,” said Andrew Pershing, VP for science at Climate Central, which uses statistical models to rapidly assess the link between weather and climate.