Fossil fuel, cement companies directly responsible for making heatwaves 50c more intense: Study

NEW DELHI: (Sep 11) Emissions from fossil fuel and cement producers could be directly responsible for making an average heatwave “50 per cent more intense” since the pre-industrial era, a study has suggested.

The research, published in Nature, also indicates that the emissions from a single carbon major emitter could have contributed to as many as “16 to 53 heatwaves” — events that would have been “virtually impossible” in a world without global warming.

Researchers from Europe, including experts at ETH Zurich, analysed 213 heatwaves recorded between 2000 and 2023 in the international ‘Emergency Events Database’, including the 2022 heatwave in India.

Source: PTI News

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