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Athens, Greece – 7 July 2025
1. Digital thermometer displaying high temperatures amid extreme heat
2. People walking amid extreme heat
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London – 7 July 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Friederike Otto, associate professor of climate science at Imperial College London: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"So we looked at 12 European cities that are sort of a rough geographical spread of the continent and our major cities where lots of people live, and we find that overall there are estimated to be 2,300 people have died during that heatwave. Of these 2,300, 1,500 have only died because of climate change”
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Rome – 1 July 2025
4. Various of tourists wearing hats and using umbrellas for shade
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London – 7 July 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Friederike Otto, associate professor of climate science at Imperial College London: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“Our cities are still not designed to be able to really withstand these extreme heatwaves that we are frequently seeing now. And so in this study, we are trying for the first time to rapidly also assess what that means in terms of death, and why it’s so important to adapt to the climate change we already see — but also to stop burning fossil fuels. Because out of three deaths, two would not have happened if it wasn’t for climate change.”
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ARCHIVE: Permian Basin, Texas, US – 11-15 October 2021
6. Various oil wells in Permian Basin
7. Various of oil pumps silhouetted against sunset
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Belgrade, Serbia – 26 June 2025
8. Older man cooling off under outdoor shower amid extreme heat
9. Elderly couple sitting outdoors during extreme heat
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London – 7 July 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Gary Konstantinoudis, biostatistician at Imperial College London: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"Older populations have been reported in the literature to be the most vulnerable. When the temperatures are very high, the generic population have good mechanisms to regulate heat whereas older populations, these mechanisms do not work properly which leads to putting them in high risk for hospitalization or mortality."
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Paris, France – 1 July 2025
11. Individual swimming into the Seine River
12. Misting station in Paris
13. Individuals near a water fountain amid extreme heat
STORYLINE:
Human-caused climate change is responsible for killing about 1,500 people in last week’s European heat wave, a first-of-its-kind rapid study found.
Those 1,500 people “have only died because of climate change, so they would not have died if it would not have been for our burning of oil, coal and gas in the last century,” said study co-author Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College in London.
Scientists at Imperial and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine used peer-reviewed techniques to calculate that about 2,300 people in 12 cities likely died from the heat in last week’s bout of high temperatures, with nearly two-thirds of them dying because of the extra degrees that climate change added to the natural summer warmth.
Past rapid attribution studies have not gone beyond evaluating climate change’s role in meteorological effects such as extra heat, flooding or drought. This new study goes a step further in directly connecting coal, oil and natural gas use to people dying.
Of the 1,500 deaths attributed to climate change, the study found more than 1,100 were people 75 or older.
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