Human-induced climate change has played an "absolutely overwhelming" role in the extreme heatwaves that have swept across North America, Europe and China this month, according to an assessment by scientists published on Tuesday (July 25). - REUTERS
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00:10 In terms of heat waves, more often we see that every study that we do, we see the fingerprint of climate change in intensifying this type of event of heat waves.
00:22 So it's pretty clear, it's unequivocal that human-induced climate change is influencing heat wave events in terms of intensity and the frequency of occurrence.
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00:50 For Europe and Central America, we found that it was virtually impossible for this event to happen without climate change.
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01:14 Because of increases in greenhouse gases and we are altering the composition of the atmosphere, affecting the global surface means, the temperature,
01:23 we're going to see the intensity of these events and the frequency as well being much shorter, every two to five years instead of every 50 or every 100 years.
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