The extreme heat that engulfed the Iberian peninsula and parts of north Africa last week would have been 'almost impossible without climate change,...
A mass of hot, dry warm air from North Africa reached the Iberian peninsula early last week, driving temperatures to record highs for AprilThe extreme heat that engulfed the Iberian peninsula and parts of north Africa last week would have been"almost impossible without climate change," an international scientific study found Friday.
"Human-caused climate change made the record-breaking heatwave in Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Algeria at least 100 times more likely and the heat would have been almost impossible without climate change," the WWA report found. Such abnormally high temperatures followed"a historical multi-year drought in those regions, exacerbating the impacts of the heat on agriculture which is already threatened by an increasing water scarcity," they said.
Experts say parts of Spain are the driest in a thousand years, with the ongoing drought prompting some farmers to choose not to sow crops this year.
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