{"id":6744,"date":"2023-08-18T08:29:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T06:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=6744"},"modified":"2023-08-18T08:29:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T06:29:21","slug":"how-climate-change-is-driving-heatwaves-and-forest-fires-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/08\/18\/how-climate-change-is-driving-heatwaves-and-forest-fires-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"How climate change is driving heat waves and wildfires in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\"><span>BRUSSELS, August 17 (TASR) \u2013 Europe is fighting the heat again this summer, and forest fires are raging across the continent from\u00a0<\/span><span>Mediterranean Sea<\/span><span>\u00a0after\u00a0<\/span><span>Spain<\/span><span>\u00a0. Here&#039;s how climate change is driving these events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__medium__1kbOh text__heading_6__1qUJ5 heading__base__2T28j heading__heading_6__RtD9P article-body__heading__33EIm\" data-testid=\"Heading\"><strong>HOTTER, MORE FREQUENT HEAT WAVES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">Climate change is making heat waves hotter and more frequent. This is the case in most terrestrial regions and has been confirmed by the United Nations&#039; global panel of climate scientists, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).\u00a0<span>Greenhouse gas emissions from human activity have warmed the planet by approximately 1.2 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times. This warmer baseline means that higher temperatures can be reached during extreme heat. <\/span><span>Every heat wave we experience today has been warmer and more frequent as a result of climate change, said Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London who co-leads the global research collaboration World Weather Attribution.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS, August 17 (TASR) \u2013 Europe is battling heatwaves again this summer, with forest fires raging across the continent from the Mediterranean to Spain. Here\u2019s how climate change is driving these events. HOTTER, MORE FREQUENT HEATWAVES Climate change is making heatwaves hotter and more frequent. This is the case for most land regions, and a global panel of climate scientists from the World Health Organization has confirmed [\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-6744","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\/6744","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=6744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}