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🗓️ 25 July 2023
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0:00.0 | Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday, July 25th. I'm Naila Blu. Today on the show, |
0:09.9 | Israel curbs the power of its Supreme Court and tens of thousands protest. Plus, |
0:15.4 | Speaker McCarthy's quiet winning streak. But first, new data shows just how vulnerable we are |
0:21.6 | to extreme heat caused by climate change. That's today's one big thing. |
0:29.2 | More than 1500 record high temperatures have been recorded in the US this month, |
0:34.6 | according to NOAA. And this deadly heat extends around the world. |
0:38.7 | Now, a new study is finding a definitive link between this extreme heat and climate change. |
0:44.0 | Axios' Andrew Friedman has been reporting on this. Hi, Andrew. Hi, Naila. Obviously, |
0:48.7 | this is on the first time a link has been made between extreme weather and climate change. |
0:52.9 | What's new about this report? So what's new about this is they really quantified three particular |
0:59.8 | heat waves. One in the US, especially in the southern and southwestern US, as well as Northern |
1:04.9 | Mexico, one in southern Europe, and then one in China. So these are three separate events |
1:12.1 | quantified in terms of their link to climate change based on methods that have been peer-reviewed |
1:19.1 | and tested over the last couple of years. And so those methods were done by scientists. I |
1:23.8 | thought it was so interesting. You just grabbed them as like a climate change detective squad. |
1:29.6 | What were they investigating and what do they find? They're trying to produce studies that are |
1:34.7 | societally relevant for people about events that are still in the news or just very recently |
1:41.5 | happened because everybody is asking the question, what does this thing have to do with climate change? |
1:49.6 | And what they were trying to find out is did climate change make this event more likely, |
1:57.1 | more severe and more likely, or did it really not differ very much from the background noise |
2:04.8 | of natural variability? And what they found was for the US and Europe, these two heat waves |
2:11.7 | would have been virtually impossible to occur in a pre-industrial world. So a world in which |
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