Climate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer and 35 times more likely

WASHINGTON — Human-caused climate change dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this month's killer heat that has been baking the Southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America, a new flash study found.Sizzling daytime temperatures that triggered cases of heat stroke in parts of the United States were 35 times more likely and 2.

'While other groups of international scientists — and the global carbon emissions reduction target adopted by countries in the 2015 Paris climate agreement — refer to warming since pre-industrial time in mid 1800s, Otto said comparing what's happening now to the year 2000 is more striking.

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