Most Texans are used to hot summers, but this year has been particularly scorching. The Dallas-Fort Worth area has already had more than 20 days reach 100...
How does the heat relate to climate change?
“You could never say that their use was responsible for any single home run,” he said. “But being on steroids gave the batters an advantage and made it more likely that they would hit more home runs than if they had not taken them.”Summertime temperatures on average across the state are two degrees higher this century than they were last last, Nielsen-Gammon said.As of Saturday, Dallas-Fort Worth had 21 days where the high temperature reached 100.
“We’ve always had heat waves, that’s part of the climatology of the south-central part of the country,” Porter said. “But climate change and global warming has just made the number of days greater.”Climate scientists are working on an area of study called attribution, or determining how individual weather events are tied to climate change., a tool that aims to determine how likely temperatures on a given day are a result of climate change.
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