When Britain experienced its highest temperatures ever recorded, in an extreme heat wave last week, scientists had little doubt the blistering event was supercharged by humanity’s runaway release of greenhouse gases.
, the world is projected to warm 2.7 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
The analysis of the British heat wave found its likelihood in a 1.2 degrees Celsius cooler, preindustrial world was “extremely low” — and “statistically impossible” in two out of the three meteorological stations in England that they examined. Friederike Otto, one of the study’s authors, based at Imperial College London, said because of climate change, “every heat wave is more likely and more likely to be more extreme.”In today’s climate, given the current levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, one could expect a repeat of the British heat wave once in 100 years. For the 1-day maximum temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius, the return time is estimated at 1 in 1000 years.
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