According to a World Weather Attribution research, human-induced climate change is not 40 times more likely to cause the hot, dry, and windy conditions that caused Spain to experience its worst wildfires in thirty years this summer.
More than 110 studies on how climate change affects extreme weather occurrences have been carried out by this global partnership.
According to a team of 13 scientists, under the current climate, the catastrophic weather conditions that caused the fires in northwest Iberia, including Portugal, last month might occur every 15 years.
In contrast, the current temperature is 1.3 degrees Celsius (34.3 Fahrenheit) warmer than it was in pre-industrial times, when such conditions would have been predicted just once every 500 years.
