Extreme heat wave driven by climate change, new study says

More than two dozen scientists at the global World Weather Attribution group worked nonstop over the past week to determine whether the Pacific Northwest’s record-breaking heat wave was caused by climate change. The answer was a resounding yes. The extreme temperatures from last week were made 150 times more likely by climate change. The World’s Marco Werman shares the findings.

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