| A new study has added to body of evidence linking human-caused climate change with extreme heat events. Published Monday by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, the NOAA-led study investigated the causes of 16 extreme weather events in 2013 across four continents. This third such annual report covered analyses by 20 global research groups. The analyses "overwhelmingly show" a link between the five heat waves included in the study--ones that hit Australia, Korea, Europe, Japan and China--and climate change. The effects of climate change mean more long-duration summer heat waves and overall warming annual temperatures are becoming as much as 10 times more likely, the study finds. |
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