Publication: Reuters
UCLA Expert: Daniel Swain: Assistant Researcher and Climate Specialist, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Synopsys: The U.S. heat wave caused record temperatures that killed possibly thousands of people and sparked wildfires in Europe. The article explains what is causing the heat waves, according to scientists.
UCLA News: “Climate change is making extreme and unprecedented heat events both more intense and more common, pretty much universally throughout the world,” Swain said. “Heat waves are probably the most underestimated type of potential disaster because they routinely kill a lot of people. And we just don’t hear about it because it doesn’t kill them in, to put it bluntly, sufficiently dramatic ways. There aren’t bodies on the street.”
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