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Northern Hemisphere's extreme summer drought was made 20 times more likely by climate change
The soaring temperatures experienced this summer, which contributed to the drought, would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change, an analysis has found.
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What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.