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Climate-linked European heatwave killed over 500
2016-07-12 05:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Hundreds of west Europeans were killed in the 2003 heat wave by human-induced climate change, scientists say in a ground-breaking report British researchers say climate change was responsible for the deaths of more than 60 people in London in 2003, and over 500 in Paris. In a rare instance of direct attribution of human mortality to warming temperatures, they say that years European heatwave raised the risk of heat-related death by 20% in London, and in Paris by 70%. Using both climate...
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