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The Case of the Killer Heat

A Matter of Degrees

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Climate Change

Scientists can now figure out for almost any weather event if it can be attributed to climate change. The first heat wave that was directly linked to climate change, Europe hadn't reached temperatures that hot since the year 1500. In fact, in the case of the Pacific Northwest heat wave, that is an attribution so robust that we think that heat wave would have been practically impossible without climate change.

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