Climate change made July hotter for 4 out of 5 people on Earth, say scientists
- The day with the most widespread climate-change effect was July 10, when 3.5 billion experienced extreme heat with global warming fingerprint
- For 2 billion humans, climate change made it 3 times more likely to be hotter every single day in July
More than 6.5 billion people, or 81 per cent of the world’s population, sweated through at least one day where climate change had a significant effect on the average daily temperature, according to a new report issued Wednesday by Climate Central, a science non-profit that has figured out a way to calculate how much climate change has affected daily weather.
“We really are experiencing climate change just about everywhere,” said Climate Central Vice-President for Science Andrew Pershing.
The new study calculated that the burning of coal, oil and natural gas had made it three times more likely to be hotter on at least one day in those cities.
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In the US, where the climate effect was largest in Florida, more than 244 million people felt greater heat due to climate change during July.