USA Today
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The brutal, record-smashing heat wave that's scorching northern Mexico and the south-central U.S., especially Texas, has a connection to human-caused climate change, experts said this week.
How brutal has the heat been? All-time record high temperatures were set or tied in Texas cities such as Del Rio (115 degrees), Laredo (115 degrees) and San Angelo (114 degrees). The heat index, which is how hot it feels to the human body when humidity is factored in, reached an unofficial record of 125 degrees in Corpus Christi.
An analysis of data from Climate Central, a science communication group in Princeton, N.J., said that climate change is making the heat wave at least five times more likely.
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