{"id":1442,"date":"2026-06-25T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2026-06-27T07:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:17:19","slug":"global-warming-has-made-europes-heatwave-2-4c-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/global-warming-has-made-europes-heatwave-2-4c-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Global warming has made Europe\u2019s heatwave 2-4\u00b0C worse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What makes an unexceptional weather pattern lead to exceptional heat? The obvious answer\u2014climate change driven by greenhouse gases\u2014is the correct one. A quick assessment offered by ClimaMeter, a consortium of scientists based at France\u2019s Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, suggests that climate change has made the heatwave 2\u00b0C-4\u00b0C worse than it would have been under the same conditions in the second half of the 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/science-and-technology\/2026\/06\/24\/global-warming-has-made-europes-heatwave-2-4c-worse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Economist<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes an unexceptional weather pattern lead to exceptional heat? The obvious answer\u2014climate change driven by greenhouse gases\u2014is the correct one. A quick assessment offered by ClimaMeter, a consortium of scientists based at France\u2019s Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, suggests that climate change has made the heatwave 2\u00b0C-4\u00b0C worse than it would have been under the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}