Human-caused climate change boosted temperatures for roughly half the planet’s population this summer, with British Columbia among one of the hardest hit regions, a new analysis has found.
And in extreme but not uncommon cases, the group’s analysis also found that 2.4 billion people on the planet experienced more than 60 days where temperatures were made more than five times more likely due to carbon pollution, according to the analysis. At +5, an “exceptional” climate change signal indicates weather conditions have been made at least five times more likely, “potentially far more,” states Climate Central’s CSI scale.
Friederike Otto, a climate rapid attribution researcher at London’s Imperial College that works with WWA, pointed to a number of hot spots across the planet this summer: a heat wave in India made 30 times more likely due to climate change, one in Southeast Asia that would “basically not have occurred” were it not for humanity's carbon footprint.
An intense climate warming signal was also found stretching across British Columbia, a province that saw on average 23.7 days of extreme temperatures made worse by climate change. Along B.C.’s coastal regions, temperatures were made at least three times more likely during upwards of 70 days between June 1 and Aug. 31 — a figure that puts the region among the planet's most influenced by climate-driven heat this summer.
In B.C., where fires tend to burn later into the fall, the province continues to set its own grim record, with wildfires so far having burned an area equal to about 60 per cent of Vancouver Island.
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