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12. Climate change is already killing. In 1970 there were no recorded heatwaves

Mon May 2, 2016, 08:32 AM

May 2016

They were so rare as to be considered anomalies.

Now we track them since they happen so regularly. Russia's last heat wave killed 55,000 people.

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