With over 120 million U.S. residents across the Midwest and Northeast under an air quality alert and 60 million residents in the South under heat advisories on Thursday, Americans are contending with two different effects caused by climate change.
In Halifax, Nova Scotia, temperatures in early June reached upwards of 94 F, around 18 degrees higher than normal.
"The climate signal is very strong,” Robert Scheller, professor of forestry at North Carolina State University, told the BBC. “We are seeing both a larger area burned, and more severe fires." "The fire season is getting longer, starting earlier in the spring, going later into the fall," Chelene C. Hanes, a fire scientist with the Canadian Forest Service,Longer, more frequent and more intense heat waveslike the ongoing one in Texas and the southern Plains.the Environmental Protection Agency states on its website
."Their frequency has increased steadily, from an average of two heat waves per year during the 1960s to six per year during the 2010s and 2020s." The average U.S. heat wave is now four days long, a day longer than in the 1960s.,"more than 100 daily temperature records have fallen over the last two weeks in Texas alone."
"The severe conditions have caused 13 deaths in Texas and led to a spike in emergency room attendance across the state,"
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