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By Greg Brosnan, BBC News Climate and Science     A billboard shows the temperature on 5 June in Phoenix, Arizona Human-induced climate change made recent extreme heat in the US southwest, Mexico and Central America around 35 times more likely, scientists say. The World Weather Attribution (WWA) group studied excess heat between May and early June, when the US heatwave was concentrated in southwest states including California, Nevada and Arizona. Extreme temperatures in Mexico also claimed lives during the period. The scientists said that such a heatwave was now four times more likely than it was in 2000, driven by planet-warming emissions. Such attribution studies take some time to complete, so it's too soon for scientists to say how much of a role climate change is playing in the current heatwave stretching from the centre to the northeast of the US and into Canada. Experts say many extreme weather events including heatwaves are becoming more frequent and intense as a re...

  February ends with extreme and unusual heat 01 March 2024 The month of February has ended with extreme heat in the southern hemisphere summer and high temperatures atypical of the northern hemisphere winter. The WMO community is monitoring the state of the climate and providing timely forecasts and warnings to protect lives and livelihoods.    500 hPa geopotential height and 850 hPa temperature Parts of North and South America, northwest and southeast Africa, southeast and far eastern Asia, western Australia and Europe all saw record-breaking temperatures, either on a daily basis or for the entire month.   “The anomalous heat is consistent with the persisting warming observed since June 2023, with seven consecutive new global monthly temperature records, including January 2024. Global sea surface temperatures are record high. Whilst the El Niño event has stoked temperatures in some parts of the world, human induced climate change is the long-term major cont...

  The ocean is our planet’s life-support system and a source of hope that humanity will be able to avoid a climate crisis and meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.   The Ocean Pavilion brings together world leaders in ocean science, engineering, and policy to carry the message that the ocean matters to everyone, everywhere and that science must lead the way in our quest for safe, long-term solutions to climate change.   Why now? Why the ocean? Earth is an ocean planet, and all life here depends on the ocean. The ocean gives us the oxygen we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. It protects and sustains billions of people worldwide.   The ocean is also the engine of Earth’s climate, supplying and absorbing heat, regulating the planetary water cycle, and housing 20 times more carbon than the atmosphere and terrestrial plants combined. Put simply, the ocean is climate, and the climate is the ocean.   But as we change the planet's cli...