Experts say climate change is behind record heat waves

The broader scientific consensus on the forces in action is clear: “Climate change is weighing the weather against us,” Kathryn Hayhoe, a climate scientist at The Nature Conservancy, an environmental organization, told The Guardian. “We always have a chance to roll a double six naturally, and have an intense, record-breaking summer heat wave. But decade after decade as the world warms, it’s almost as if climate change is creeping in and taking one of those numbers on the dice and turning it into another six, and then Six more. And maybe seven. So we’re seeing heat waves come earlier in the year, they’re longer and stronger.”