The past 12 months ending in October was the hottest 12-month period that the planet has seen in at least 125,000 years. A new analysis shows not only how warming is loading the dice for more frequent and severe heat extremes, but also the disproportionate impacts worldwide.
* Climate Central’s report found that over the 12-month period, 5.8 billion people in the 175 countries surveyed experienced more than a month’s worth of temperatures that were very strongly affected by human-caused climate change.
* When looking at the daily average climate shift index for all of the examined countries, the nation with the highest average value was Jamaica, with a 4.5. This means that on a typical day there in the past 12 months, people there experienced temperatures that were 4.5 times as likely to occur due to climate change.
* When looking at 700 cities with at least 1 million people that saw extreme temperatures, the research showed that Houston, Texas, saw the longest streak of climate-driven extreme temperatures, at 22 days.
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The past 12 months ending in October was the hottest 12-month period that the planet has seen in at least 125,000 years. A new analysis shows not only how warming is loading the dice for more frequent and severe heat extremes, but also the disproportionate impacts worldwide.
* Climate Central’s report found that over the 12-month period, 5.8 billion people in the 175 countries surveyed experienced more than a month’s worth of temperatures that were very strongly affected by human-caused climate change.
* When looking at the daily average climate shift index for all of the examined countries, the nation with the highest average value was Jamaica, with a 4.5. This means that on a typical day there in the past 12 months, people there experienced temperatures that were 4.5 times as likely to occur due to climate change.
* When looking at 700 cities with at least 1 million people that saw extreme temperatures, the research showed that Houston, Texas, saw the longest streak of climate-driven extreme temperatures, at 22 days.