25% of recent heat waves 'virtually impossible' without human-caused climate change, study finds

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25% of recent heat waves 'virtually impossible' without human-caused climate change, study finds  Fifty-five heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change, according to a study published Wednesday.   READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/09/11/25-of-recent-heat-waves-virtually-impossible-without-human-caused-climate-change-study-fin  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00Human activity responsible for climate change has led to more than 50 heatwaves since the year 2000, researchers say.

00:09According to a new study published in the journal Nature, just over a quarter of all heatwaves in the last 25 years

00:17would have been virtually impossible without human-caused climate change.

00:22So we looked at the range of heatwaves that happened recently and we looked at how much more probable they were made

00:30because of those emissions of the carbon majors.

00:35And what we find is that for many events they were made clearly much more probable.

00:4255 of the 213 heatwaves were 10,000 times more likely to occur.

00:49The scientists also found that emissions from 180 major cement, oil and gas producers contributed significantly to all the heatwaves.

01:02We find that even individual contributions are often sufficient to make some of those heatwaves basically definitely much more probable.

01:12The polluters identified include publicly traded and state-owned companies,

01:17as well as a few countries where fossil fuel production data was available at the national level.

01:25The findings could have ramifications for lawsuits brought against major polluters,

01:30undercutting the argument that no single contributor can be considered responsible for the effects of pollution.

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