
The broader scientific consensus on the forces at play is evident: “Local weather change places the cube towards us,” Katharine Hayhoe, climatologist at Nature Conservancy, an environmental group, tell the Guardian. “We nonetheless have an opportunity to do a double six naturally and get an intense, record-breaking summer time warmth wave. However decade after decade, because the world heats up, it is like local weather change creeps in and takes a kind of numbers on the cube and turns it into six extra, then six extra. And perhaps even a seven. So we will see that heatwaves arrive earlier within the 12 months, they’re longer, they’re stronger. “