Germany updates: Climate change doubled extreme heat days
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Germany saw twice as many days of extreme heat thanks to climate change — report
A new report from the World Weather Attribution, the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, and Climate Central has concluded from its analysis of the 12-month period from May 1, 2024 to May 1, 2025, that almost half of the world’s population experienced an extra 30 days of extreme heat, at least, as a result of human-induced climate change.
The report found that Germany experienced 50 days of extreme heat — defined as days hotter than 90% of temperatures observed locally over the 1990-2020 period — in the past year. Of those, the report said that 24 would not have happened were it not for climate change.
The report pointed out that 2024 was the hottest year on record, with January 2025 the hottest January on record.
“This is not a surprise or an accident — the causes are well known and the impacts are devastating,” the authors wrote in the report.
“The continued burning of coal, oil, and gas has released and accumulated enough greenhouse gases to warm the planet by 1.3°C over a 5-year average) — and by more than 1.5°C in 2024 alone — compared to pre-industrial times.”
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