Climate change caused nearly all of the world’s population to experience higher temperatures from June to August, Climate Central said.
and published Thursday examined temperatures in 180 countries and 22 territories around the world. The U.S.-based research group said in a news release that almost 8 billion people, or 98 percent of the world’s population, were exposed to higher temperatures that were two times more likely to have been caused by heat-trapping carbon pollution in Earth’s atmosphere.
Between June and August, which the researchers referred to as this summer, they found that 6.2 billion people had at least one day of average temperature conditions that were made at least five times more likely by climate change.In the Northern Hemisphere’s summer, nearly half of the global population experienced 30 or more days of temperatures made at least three times more likely by climate change, the report said. And it found that at least 1.
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