What's less well established is how climate change will affect fluctuations in temperatures or extreme weather events. ![]() It's well established that temperatures will continue rise as long as humans keep pumping carbon into the atmosphere. To do so, the researchers compiled climate data going back to the 1950s and weather observations from the heat wave and preceding weeks, to form what they call an "intimate portrait" of the disaster. "It was shocking, even to the broader science community."īartusek is the lead author of a paper published Thursday in the journal Nature Climate Change that attempts to perform a thorough autopsy on the 2021 heat wave. student at the Columbia Climate School’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "It broke these heat records by such huge margins," said Samuel Bartusek, a Ph.D. But the unprecedented magnitude of the heat wave suggested there may have been other factors as well. In the weeks that followed, many rushed to blame climate change - a sensible conclusion, to be sure. And a New York Times analysis found that on June 28 alone, there were 1,000 more heat related emergency room visits throughout the Pacific Northwest United States, compared to fewer than 10 such visits in 2019. ![]() It has been estimated that the extreme weather event led to more than 1,400 excess deaths (the number of deaths higher than statistically expected, during the 12-day heat wave). The Lytton wildfire was just one small scene in a historic heat wave that hit the Pacific Northwest last summer. Within days, nearly the entire village had burned down. ![]() The next day, a wildfire broke out just south of the town. On June 29, temperatures there reached 121 degrees Fahrenheit, eight degrees higher than had ever been recorded anywhere else in the country. (CN) - Last summer, a small village named Lytton, in British Columbia, set a record by recording the hottest day on record in Canada - ever.
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