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‘Climate change is running rampant’: Europe’s heatwave ‘virtually impossible’ 50 years ago

“Continued fossil-fuel emissions are directly responsible for the disruption people are experiencing this week,” climate scientists warn.

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00:39We found that in the last 50 years since a previous heat wave affected Europe in 1976, that the chance
00:48of a heat wave like this has gone from almost impossible to something that we'd expect to see every couple
00:55of decades.
01:10We know that in Europe thousands of people die due to extreme heat every year.
01:15We know that the contribution of climate change to that is very strong.
01:20In general, we tend to put it at about two-thirds increase in the number of deaths, so about two
01:26-thirds of the heat deaths that we see tend to be attributable to climate change.
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