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Climate change added 41 days of dangerous heat around world in 2024

Scientists say human-caused climate change added an average of 41 days of dangerous heat worldwide in 2024

The Independent UK

Climate change ‘worsened all 10 deadliest weather events in past two decades’

The deadliest weather events since 2004 caused more than 570,000 deaths and the ‘fingerprints’ of climate change were present, scientists say.

Evening Standard

Spain's horrific flooding another nasty hit in a fall where climate extremes just keep coming

The deadly flooding in Valencia Spain is just the latest in a spate of climate extremes that seem to have shifted into overdrive, especially in rain-weary Europe

The Independent UK

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Heat inequality ‘causing thousands of unreported deaths in poor countries’

Friederike Otto, of World Weather Attribution, says poor people and outdoor workers are dying around the world

The Guardian - UK

Extreme ‘heat dome’ hitting Olympics ‘impossible’ without global heating

Scorching temperatures in Mediterranean countries and north Africa already causing increase in premature deaths

The Guardian - UK

Olympics bet against climate change with swimming in Seine and may lose. Scientists say told you so

The Paris Olympics bet against climate change when they scheduled some outdoor swimming events in the Seine River, and they may lose

The Independent UK

Climate crisis made killer US and Mexico heatwave 35 times more likely

Heatwaves like the one baking the US and Mexico are ‘no longer that out of the ordinary anymore’ as climate change dials up the heat worldwide

The Independent UK

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Experts Warn Of Heat Risks As India's Temperatures Climb Again

Extreme temperatures across India are having their worst impact in the country's teeming megacities, experts said Thursday, warning that the heat is fast becoming a public health crisis.

International Business Times

‘Impossible’ heatwave struck Philippines in April, scientists find

Human-caused climate crisis brought soaring temperatures across Asia, from Gaza to Delhi to Manila

The Guardian - UK

Scientists say Oman, UAE deluge ‘most likely’ linked to climate change

A study has found climate change caused by fossil fuel emissions is the likely reason for the extreme weather events.

Al Jazeera

Europe baked in ‘extreme heat stress’ pushing temperatures to record highs

Europeans are dying from hot weather 30% more than they did two decades ago, report finds

The Guardian - UK

Dubai's airport diverts scores of flights as 'exceptional weather' hits Gulf

Dubai's major international airport diverted scores of incoming flights on Tuesday as heavy rains lashed the United Arab Emirates, causing widespread flooding around the desert country.

France 24

Why 2024's "lost winter" alarms experts

When 2023 ended, it was the hottest year in recorded history. So far, this year isn't looking much better

Salon

'Weak Tea': Climate Scientists Push Back Against COP28 Cheer

A UN climate deal that approved a call to transition away from fossil fuels has been hailed as a major milestone and a cause for at least cautious optimism.

International Business Times

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The Guardian - UK

Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels

Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’

The Guardian - UK

Human-caused heating behind extreme droughts in Syria, Iraq and Iran, study finds

Millions of people’s lives wrecked by droughts that used to happen once every 250 years but now expected once a decade

The Independent UK

Nasty drought in Syria, Iraq and Iran wouldn't have happened without climate change, study finds

A new study says the three-year drought that has left millions of people in Syria, Iraq and Iran with little water wouldn’t have happened without human-caused climate change

WEKU

Earth is on track for its hottest year yet, according to a European climate agency

The report from the Copernicus Climate Change Service also noted that Earth set a new mark for how far above normal temperatures reached in September.

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The Independent UK

September sizzled to records and was so much warmer than average scientists call it 'mind-blowing'

After a record-smashing hot summer, Earth's warming somehow got even worse in September

The Independent UK

UK’s hottest day of the year likely to be on Saturday, Met Office says

Forecasters believe temperatures will rise above the 32.2C recorded in June.

The Independent UK

July has been so blistering hot, scientists already calculate that it's the warmest month on record

July has been so hot so far that scientists calculate that this month will be the globally hottest on record and likely the warmest human civilization has seen, even though there are several days left to sweat through

The Independent UK

Hottest July on record and possibly in the last 120,000 years, say scientists

With only three weeks worth of data, meteorologists are ‘virtually certain’ this month will raise the bar given how hot it has been.

The Hindu

Heatwaves in Europe, China and America could not have occurred without climate change: study

Study finds heatwaves in US and europe are becoming more common & are virtually impossible without increase in heat from mid-1800s.

WEKU

U.S., European heat waves 'virtually impossible' without climate change, study finds

Punishing heat waves have gripped America, Asia and Europe this July. A new study finds human-caused climate change is a major reason why.

Evening Standard

July heatwaves ‘would have been almost impossible without climate change’

They are now expected to occur every few years and will become hotter and more frequent as long as people keep burning fossil fuels, scientists said

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