Climate change made the East Coast heat wave 5 times more likely to occur

According to CNN, “An analysis by the climate research nonprofit Climate Central found climate change made Tuesday’s extreme heat in the Mid-Atlantic at least five times more likely to occur when compared with a modeled world without emissions from burning fossil fuels.”

By now, it’s pretty obvious that climate change intensifies weather such as hurricanes with warmer ocean temperatures to droughts and heat waves. Tuesday was the hottest day on record for many areas in the East Coast.

Heat remains the most fatal form of extreme weather in the United States and as climate change intensifies the heat, they are more severe and more frequent. The heat is not over yet as the heat risk stretches to Thursday across the Northeast all the way to the Midwest.