Sweltering heat across Asia was 45 times more likely because of climate change, study finds

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Sizzling heat across Asia and the Middle East in late April that echoed last year’s destructive swelter was made 45 times more likely in some parts of the continent because of human-caused climate change, a study Tuesday found.

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In the Philippines, scientists found the heat was so extreme it would have been impossible without human-caused climate change. In parts of the Middle East, climate change increased the probability of the event by about a factor of five. The heat also had a large impact on agriculture, causing crop damage and reduced yields, as well as on education, with school vacations having to be extended and

Internally displaced people, migrants and those in refugee camps were especially vulnerable to the searing temperatures, the study found.

 

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