Climate change-fuelled heat waves forecast a new global weather reality

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The Globe and Mail | Tarek Youzbashi
July 22, 2022

Record-breaking heat waves have struck many parts of the U.S., Europe, and China since the start of July, causing deaths, wildfires and glacier collapses that are likely to become a lot more common along with brutal heat.

In the U.S., hundreds of millions are experiencing a dangerous heat wave affecting 28 states as temperatures are expected to climb even above once-in-100-years levels over the next week.

China is also suffering from sweltering heat, with Shanghai hitting 40.9 C, the city’s highest temperature since 1873.

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“We’re all operating within an infrastructure that we built based on at least the 20th-century climate and when you look to places like Britain much of their infrastructure was not built with the expectation that things would get this hot,” Dr. Smerdon said.

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