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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:
"At 12 European cities that are sort of a rough geographical spread of the continent and our major cities where lots of people live, we find that overall there are estimated to be 2,300 people who have died during that heatwave. Of these, 1,500 have only died because of climate change — they would not have died if not for our burning of oil, coal, and gas in the last century."
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ARCHIVE: Permian Basin, Texas – 11-15 October 2021
4. Various oil wells in Permian Basin
5. Various of oil pumps silhouetted against sunset
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London – 7 July 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Friederike Otto, associate professor of climate science at Imperial College London:
"Our cities are still not designed to withstand the extreme heatwaves we are frequently seeing now. 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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Rome – 1 July 2025
7. Pharmacy sign reading 38 degrees C (100.4 F) with St. Peter’s dome in the background
8. Various of tourists wearing hats and using umbrellas for shade
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London – 7 July 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Gary Konstantinoudis, biostatistician at Imperial College London:
"Older populations have been reported in the literature to be the most vulnerable. This is due to different factors — one of the main factors is that older people tend to live with co-morbid conditions. That said, older people are more likely to have cardiovascular diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, etcetera. Apart from these chronic conditions, older people are reported to have impaired thermoregulatory systems. That is when the temperatures are very high, the generic population have good mechanisms to regulate heat whereas older populations, these mechanisms do not work properly, putting strain on their cardiovascular systems and thus putting them at higher risk for hospitalization or mortality."
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Paris – 1 July 2025
10. Man preparing to dive into the Seine River in Paris
11. Individuals jumping off a bridge into the Seine River
12. Misting station in Paris
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.
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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