Environment and Climate Change Canada says it’s now able to publicly identify links between episodes of extreme heat and climate change within days of a weather event.
The federal department says that its scientists now have the ability to estimate the degree to which human-induced climate change played a role in a heat wave or extreme heat event within a week of it happening.
Friederike Otto, an internationally renowned climate researcher and one of the global leaders in weather attribution science, said Canada’s weather service will be the first in the world to issue rapid analyses of heat events.
