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Human contribution to record-breaking June 2019 heatwave in France
- States that every heatwave occurring in Europe today is made more likely and more intense by human-induced climate change, to a degree of increase depends very strongly on the event's location, season, intensity and duration
- Conducts a near real-time analysis the role of human activities in the heatwave that struck in the last week of June 2019
- Uses an event definition that focuses on health impacts, the three-day average of daily mean temperature
- Considers two spatial scales: the whole of France and one city, Toulouse, but only considers June heatwaves because they have a different impact and different trend from heatwaves in July and August
- Observations show a very large increase in the temperature of these heatwaves; a heatwave as intense as this one is occurring at least 10 times more frequently today than a century ago
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