‘More Heat, More Often’: Temperature Records Keep Breaking | The burning of fossil fuels has created more frequent and more intense heat waves. Experts warn these heat waves are “the new normal.”
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On Thursday, five days after Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Texas, more than a million people in Houston remained without power for their air-conditioning units and medical devices.
Heat waves are part of a natural weather pattern of high-pressure systems, which cause unusually high temperatures to stagnate for a minimum of three days to more than a month.
“We’ve known for decades that the world is warming,” said Alexander Gershunov, a research meteorologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.
Almost a decade ago, under the 2015 Paris Agreement, nations agreed to try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius to preserve a livable planet.
Recently, a group of environmental, health and labor organizations asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to recognize the threat of extreme heat by including it in major disaster declarations.
A Columbia University analysis showed that neighborhoods that were historically redlined experienced hotter summers in 84 percent of major American cities, including Houston.
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