Summer heat wave due to climate change, Penn professor says

The current summer heat wave is due to climate change, a University of Pennsylvania professor told CNN.

Presidential Distinguished Professor Michael Mann said that it is currently extremely hot this week due to climate change. However, future problems can be prevented “by getting off fossil fuels.”

“This is a glimpse of not only what our future will look like, but in fact, it will look quite a bit worse than this,” Professor Mann told CNN host Brianna Keilar during an interview Monday.

“We will see more widespread, and hotter, and longer lasting heat waves in the future if we continue to heat up the planet,” Mann said. “And so all of this gets worse if we continue pumping carbon pollution into the atmosphere and warming up the planet, that’s the bad news.”