NPR's senior climate editor provides guidance on understanding the connection between climate change and an ongoing extreme heat wave, with analysis of the meteorological factors involved. Reports were published on August 25, 2026.
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As the senior climate editor at NPR, when extreme weather impacts us, I often send out guidance to the newsroom to help everyone understand the role of climate change. Here's what I tell them.
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Did climate change cause this heat wave? Most likely, and here's why ->WAMC | More on "Climate change and extreme heat waves" at BigEarthData.ai | #ClimateChange #HeatWave More than 80 million people are under an Extreme Heat Warning or Heat Advisory through this week, according to the National Weather Service. Forecasters at the service's Weather Prediction Center called this latest heat dome a "