With temperature records set to fall across B.C., a climate scientist says people across the region should get used to off-season extreme weather.
A heat wave sweeping through the lives of millions of people across Western Canada and the U.S. Northwest is being made up to five times more likely due to climate change, real-time modelling indicates.
That’s all combined into a public facing Climate Shift Index , a rapid attribution tool that allows anyone with an internet connection to see the likelihood climate change is influencing current temperature patterns in their corner of the world. A CSI of +1 indicates climate change has made weather 1.5 times as likely; at +2, a strong effect from climate change has made weather twice as likely; at +3, a very strong climate fingerprint has made the prevailing weather three times as likely; and at +4, weather conditions have been made four times as likely, or “extremely rare without climate change.”
“It’s a big red blob,” Pershing said. “I think over this region, especially in Canada, you're gonna get a lot of areas that are maxing out at that level five.”
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