Curto Green: North American cities hotter than Dubai, and more

🔥 Hotter than Dubai

Global warming, the result of a climate crisis that is gaining strength, could cause extreme, and hitherto unthinkable, heat in North American cities.

A new study on temperature trends, carried out by Climate Central, states that, by the end of the century, US cities could record summer temperatures similar to places in the Middle East. (Climate central*)🇬🇧

According to the researchers, Temperatures in the year 2100 could make Austin's summer like today's Dubai, Phoenix's like Saudi Arabia's and Las Vegas's like Kuwait'ssystem. (The Guardian*)🇬🇧

To carry out the study, scientists gathered temperature data from 1990 to 2020.

💧 Kentucky underwater

Historic torrential rains in eastern Kentucky linked to climate change left at least 30 dead in the North American state. Dozens of people remain missingsystem. (Reuters*)

The floods caused some houses in the worst-hit areas to be carried away by water.

State Governor Andy Beshear described the event as “the most devastating and deadly floods we have seen in our history.”system. (Global Times*)

The torrential rains and the flooding caused by them are the second extreme weather event to hit the North American state in the space of a few months. At the end of last year, Kentucky was hit by tornadoes that left several people dead.system. (Folha S. Paulo)🚥

Scientists claim that the increasing occurrence of these extreme weather events is a direct consequence of global warming.

Climate change, caused by human action, makes heavy precipitation events more common and more intense in these regions, along with much of the world, as hot air retains more moisture and the oceans, with high temperatures, add more vapor of water to the atmospheresystem. (Axios*)

More flooding is predicted for the regionsystem. (The New York Times*) 🚥

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