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T he deadly heatwave that hit north-western US and Canada in late June would have been “virtually impossible without human-caused global warming, a new “rapid-attribution study finds. The event, which saw temperature records shattered by as much as 5C (9F), has been linked to hundreds of deaths in the Pacific north-west region. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. The heatwave was “so extreme that the observed temperatures “lie far outside the range of historical observations, the researchers say. Their assessment suggests that the heatwave was around a one-in-1,000-year event in today’s climate - and was made at least 150-times more likely because of climate change.

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