World Cup heat, humidity 'virtually impossible' without climate change: study
Published on July 03, 2026
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World Cup heat, humidity 'virtually impossible' without climate change: study
Make us preferred on Google Iraq's Munaf Younus with teammates as the pitch is watered by sprinklers during a hydration break in Fifa World Cup 2026 Group I match between Senegal and Iraq at Toronto Stadium, Toronto, Canada, June 26, 2026. — Reuters The extreme heat and humidity broiling swathes of the United States as it hosts World Cup matches and prepares to celebrate the Fourth of July would have been "virtually impossible" without climate change, a new study showed Friday.
"On America’s 250th birthday, our study gives a clear reality check," stated Theodore Keeping, an extreme weather and wildfire researcher at Imperial College London who co-authored the research for the World Weather Attribution group (WWA).
"The climate the country has today is fundamentally different to the one it had when the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence."
WWA, which comprises climate researchers from several leading institutions, examined the heat wave that is being driven by a strong "heat dome" high-pressure system trapping warm moist air like a lid over much of the central and eastern parts of the country, as well as southern Canada.
Although such weather patterns are commonplace, they now cause higher temperatures as a result of climate change.
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