Are humans to blame for the heat experienced in Geneva in the summer of 2015?

• DOI: 10.37207/cra.1.7
• Publication Date: 2020-01-06T16:52:38Z
• Authors: Oliver Angelil
• Keywords: Blame; Human life; Industrial Revolution

Since the dawn of Industrial Revolution, humans have been changing chemical composition atmosphere by burning fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas. These gases are known to scientists “greenhouse-gases”. Greenhouse-gases vital sustain life on Earth, but rapidly increasing concentrations them can catastrophic consequences. The word ‘catastrophic’ is perfectly fitting here, because, will be demonstrated in this article, it now believed our greenhouse-gas emissions play a large role occurrence extreme weather events that cause billions dollars worth damage infrastructure, bring about tens thousands human deaths every year. We additionally explain how extremes occurring over spatial scales smaller than what climate models resolve, heatwave city Geneva Switzerland, attributed activity – first study its kind use an approach.