{"id":2840,"date":"2023-05-08T13:16:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T11:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2023-05-08T13:16:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T11:16:57","slug":"intense-heat-waves-are-occurring-primarily-as-a-result-of-climate-change-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/05\/08\/intense-heat-waves-are-occurring-primarily-as-a-result-of-climate-change-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Intense heat waves are occurring primarily as a result of climate change, the study found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">A new study found that the change in heat, which in April <span>hit western Europe and northwest Africa with at least a 100-fold higher probability of occurrence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\"><strong><span>Why it matters:<\/span><\/strong><span>\u00a0A study from the World Weather Attribution Initiative concludes that without human-caused warming, this heat wave would have been &quot;almost impossible.&quot; Its findings are based on peer-reviewed, published methods, but the new research itself has not yet been peer-reviewed.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-list-slot\">\n<ul>\n<li data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\"><span>This is one of a number of studies that have reached similar conclusions about extreme heat.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-list-slot\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"continue-read-break\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">Separately, other scientists also reached these conclusions about Japan&#039;s 2018 record hot summer and 2018 Northern Hemisphere heat waves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\"><strong><span>Zoom in:<\/span><\/strong><span>\u00a0The heat wave comes at a time when the region is baking strong\u00a0<\/span><span>multi-year drought, while reservoirs are extremely low in Spain and crops are affected.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-list-slot\">\n<ul>\n<li data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\"><span>A heat wave of this magnitude in the region is now about a 1-in-400-year event, a new study has found.<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\"><span>In other words, such a heat wave has about a 0.25 % probability of occurring in any given year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\"><span>The study concluded that human-caused climate change has made a heat wave at least 100 times more likely, warning that this is likely a conservative estimate.<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\"><span>It also found that climate change made the heat wave much more severe, with temperatures rising by as much as 3.5 \u00b0C (6.3 \u00b0F) during the peak event compared to the world without the added amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study finds that the heatwave that hit western Europe and northwest Africa in April is at least 100 times more likely to occur than the . Why it matters: The study, from the World Weather Attribution Initiative, concludes that without human-caused warming, the heatwave would have been \u201ealmost impossible.\u201c Its findings are based on peer-reviewed, published methods, but the new research itself [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}