A heat dome trapping smog and spiking temperatures pushing people to find ways to cool down.

Ice water.

Can you say it a little louder buddy?

Say eat ice cream.

As almost everyone across the west finds ways to beat the heat new research by Environment and Climate Change Canada is revealing how much influence climate change had on a mid-June heat wave in Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada pushing temperatures in some areas into the upper 30s.

Our finding was that an event like this was made at least two to ten times more likely by human-caused climate change.

Experts say the new rapid research reinforces how burning fossil fuels over decades has powered extreme heat and drives home the need to build defences.

You have to have infrastructure that can deal with these levels of heat which before you might have said okay it's such a rare case that we don't really need to include that in our risk planning.

It's never this bad.

We've never experienced anything in the 40s in Vancouver.

Research following B.C.'s heat dome in 2021 that killed hundreds found climate change could eventually make extreme events like it far more frequent.

These changes are not random circumstance.

These changes are because of a well-understood scientific phenomenon that is going to continue to impact our lives.

And as relief comes to Canadians out west by mid-week

Environment Canada says it expects to study just how much climate change influenced this heat wave as well.

Anand Ram, CBC News, Toronto.