
PEOPLE around the world suffered an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year because of human-caused climate change, according to a group of scientists.
They also said that climate change had worsened much of the world's damaging weather throughout 2024.
The analysis by World Weather Attribution and Climate Central researchers comes at the end of a year that shattered climate record after climate record as heat across the globe made 2024 likely to be its hottest ever measured and a slew of other fatal weather events spared few.

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