Climate change helped enable this deadly heat wave — now, it has hit the Olympics

The heat wave baking the Olympic athletes and fans already killed at least 21 people as it moved through eastern Europe and northern Africa earlier in July. A new analysis finds such extreme heat would have been 'virtually impossible' without human-caused climate change.

Climate change helped enable this deadly heat wave — now, it has hit the Olympics
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The heat wave baking the Olympic athletes and fans already killed at least 21 people as it moved through eastern Europe and northern Africa earlier in July. A new analysis finds such extreme heat would have been 'virtually impossible' without human-caused climate change.