Forty times the anthropogenic climate change has multiplied the risk of heat waves such as those favored by the deadly fires in Spain and Portugal in August, a report released today by the international network of World Weather Attribution. The Iberian Peninsula, at the southwestern tip of Europe, was confronted with unusually high temperatures across August, exceeding 40 ° C in various areas. The persistent waves of heat favored fires, especially in northern Portugal and western and northwestern Spain. Both countries mourned four dead each, and thousands of people had to be expelled from their homes and huge areas with vegetation turned into a decay. Climate change, mainly caused by the burning of fossil fuels, has made meteorological conditions favoring fires 40 times more frequent and 30% more intense, according to European scientists working to prepare the study of World Weather Attribution. ‘If there was no anthropogenic rise in temperature, […]
Source: News Beast
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