{"id":69506,"date":"2026-03-20T02:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/heatwave-scorching-us-west-virtually-impossible-without-climate-crisis-say-scientists\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T02:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:55:25","slug":"heatwave-scorching-us-west-virtually-impossible-without-climate-crisis-say-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/heatwave-scorching-us-west-virtually-impossible-without-climate-crisis-say-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Heatwave scorching US west \u2018virtually impossible\u2019 without climate crisis, say scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unseasonably warm and even dangerous temperatures this week were up to 30F above average for the time of year<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/19\/march-heatwave-weather-us\">record-breaking heatwave<\/a> scorching the US west this week would have been \u201cvirtually impossible\u201d if not for the climate crisis, a team of scientists has determined.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of Americans from the Pacific coast to the Rockies baked under unseasonably warm and even dangerous temperatures this week, with temperatures up to 30F (17C) above average for the time of year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/20\/heatwave-us-west-climate-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unseasonably warm and even dangerous temperatures this week were up to 30F above average for the time of year The record-breaking heatwave scorching the US west this week would have been \u201cvirtually impossible\u201d if not for the climate crisis, a team of scientists has determined. Millions of Americans from the Pacific coast to the Rockies &#8230; <a title=\"Heatwave scorching US west \u2018virtually impossible\u2019 without climate crisis, say scientists\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/heatwave-scorching-us-west-virtually-impossible-without-climate-crisis-say-scientists\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Heatwave scorching US west \u2018virtually impossible\u2019 without climate crisis, say scientists\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}