Global warming seen lurking behind this summer’s deadly heat waves

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Date of Publication: August 13, 2015

Year of Publication: 2015

Publisher: Mashable, Inc.

Author(s): Andrew Freedman

This summer has brought unusually extreme heat to many areas in the Northern Hemisphere, setting new records in many places and tragically causing thousands of deaths.

“While it is still true that we won’t ever know the contribution of global warming to any individual event until a formal analysis has been conducted, severe heat is where we have the strongest evidence that global warming has increased the risk of individual extreme events,” wrote Noah Diffenbaugh, a climate scientist at Stanford University, in an email to Mashable.

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