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Studie: Industrin ligger tveklöst bakom värmebölja

Extremvärmen som råder över norra halvklotet har delvis med slump att göra, men det går inte längre att förneka att storskalig industrialisering har ökat riskerna för extremväder.

Det hävdar forskare vid universitetet i Oxford i en rapport som publicerades på torsdagen.

– Det är inget att diskutera. Människans inverkan har spelat mycket stor roll i den här värmeböljan, säger professor Myles Allen, klimatforskare bakom studien, till The Guardian.

Även tidigare har världen drabbats av långvariga värmeböljor. Men med växthuseffekten har risken ökat betydligt, skriver vetenskapsmännen.

Hittills i år har hettan orsakat 170 människors död, skriver Bloomberg.

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Myles Allen
Wikipedia (en)
Myles R. Allen is head of the Climate Dynamics group at the University of Oxford's Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department. He is the Principal Investigator of the distributed computing project Climateprediction.net (which makes use of computing resources provided voluntarily by the general public), and was principally responsible for starting this project. He is Professor of Geosystem Science in the School of Geography and the Environment, and a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.He has worked at the Energy Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He contributed to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a Lead Author of the Chapter on detection of change and attribution of causes, and was a Review Editor for the chapter on predictions of global climate change for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. His research focuses on the attribution of recent climate change and assessing what these changes mean for global climate simulations of the future.In 2010, Allen was awarded the Appleton Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics for "his important contributions to the detection and attribution of human influence on climate and quantifying uncertainty in climate predictions".Allen also provided the technical expertise for the game Fate of the World, which is "a PC strategy game that simulates the real social and environmental impact of global climate change over the next 200 years".
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