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Asean heat wave blamed on climate inaction

A worker unloads a block of ice at a wet market in Bangkok during the heat wave in late April. (Photo: Bloomberg)

The extreme heat that baked parts of Southeast Asia last month was largely driven by human-induced climate change, according to analysis from a team of scientists.

Temperatures that soared beyond 40C from India and Bangladesh to Thailand and Laos were at least 2C hotter than they would have been without climate change, according to researchers associated with the World Weather Attribution initiative.

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