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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