Agents of Behemoth

The heat dries up the land, making it unable to absorb water if heavy rainfall follows the extreme heat.

Human-induced climate change has played an "absolutely overwhelming" role in the extreme heatwaves that have swept across North America, Europe and China this month, according to an assessment by scientists published on Tuesday. Throughout July, extreme weather has caused havoc across the planet...

Climate scientists warned Friday that worsening atmospheric and marine heatwaves threaten food security around the world.Large swaths of the Northern Hemisphere have been pummeled in recent weeks by serial heatwaves exacerbated by the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis. 

Small rise in global temperatures would affect hundreds of millions of people and could cause a sharp rise in deaths

Blistering heat that has baked swathes of North America and Europe this month would have been "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change, researchers said Tuesday, as intense temperatures spark health alerts and stoke ferocious wildfires. With tens of million people affected in the northern hemisphere and July on track to be the hottest month globally since records began, experts warn that worse is to come unless we reduce planet-heating emissions. Severe heatwaves have gripped southern Europe, parts of the United States, Mexico and China this month...

Heatwaves have simultaneously gripped three continents in the Northern Hemisphere this summer as global warming climbs.