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ON 29 June, the village of Lytton in British Columbia recorded a temperature of 49.6°C, smashing Canadian records. The following day, fire swept through it, razing much of it to the ground.
Last week’s deadly heatwave in North America is far from the first extreme weather event to shake the world. Apocalyptic blazes hit California last year and Australia in late 2019.
Climate attribution studies show that both earlier events were made more likely by climate change. We hardly need the verdict on the North American heatwave to tell us the risks of continued inaction.
Yet that it …
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