内容摘要：“It’s the first time in forever I feel love and warmth,” he said.

“It’s the first time in forever I feel love and warmth,” he said.

“The changes we have seen in the last 20 years, which feels like just yesterday, are so strong,” Otto said. Her study found that this heat wave is now four times more likely to happen now than it was in the year 2000 when it was nearly a degree (0.5 degrees Celsius) cooler than now. “It seems sort of far away and a different world.”A man fills containers with water due to the shortage caused by high temperatures and drought in Veracruz, Mexico, on June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

A man fills containers with water due to the shortage caused by high temperatures and drought in Veracruz, Mexico, on June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)While other groups of international scientists — and the global carbon emissions reduction target adopted by countries in the 2015 Paris climate agreement — refer to warming since pre-industrial time in mid 1800s, Otto said comparing what’s happening now to the year 2000 is more striking.“We’re looking at a shifting baseline - what was once extreme but rare is becoming increasingly common,” said University of Southern California Marine Studies Chair Carly Kenkel, who wasn’t part of the attribution team’s study. She said the analysis is “the logical conclusion based on the data.”

A surfer rides a wave at Windandsea Beach on May 30, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)A surfer rides a wave at Windandsea Beach on May 30, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

The study looked at a large swath of the continent, including southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize and Honduras and the hottest five consecutive days and hottest five consecutive nights. For most of the area, those five days ran from June 3 to 7 and those five nights were June 5 to 9, but in a few places the peak heat started May 26, Otto said.

For example, San Angelo, Texas, hit a record 111 degrees (43.8 degrees Celsius) on June 4. Between June 2 and June 6 the night temperature never dipped below 80 degrees (26.7 degrees Celsius) at Corpus Christi airport, a record each night, with two days when the thermometer never dropped below 85 (29.4 degrees Celsius) according to the National Weather Service.They seek rights over their common lands that will require outsiders, including authorities, to seek villagers’ permission to make any changes to them.

India is among the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate impacts. According to the 2025 Climate Risk Index, the country between 1993 and 2022 was subject to 400 extreme events — includingand cyclones — causing 80,000 deaths and economic losses nearing $180 billion.

Odisha is one of India’s poorest states and among the most vulnerable to climate impacts. A study by researchers from Odisha’s Fakir Mohan University published in 2023 found that food production there had decreased by 40% in the last 50 years due to climate change.Most Indian farmers rely on rain-fed agriculture, with about half of all farmed land dependent on downpours. As the monsoons become more unpredictable, livelihoods are affected.