Over the past year of record-shattering warmth, the average person on Earth experienced 26 more days of abnormally high temperatures than they otherwise would have, were it not for human-induced climate change, scientists said Tuesday.
Nearly 80 percent of the world's population experienced at least 31 days of atypical warmth since last May as a result of human-caused warming, the researchers' analysis found.
In some countries, the difference in unusually warm days is just two or three weeks, while in others like Colombia, Indonesia, and Rwanda, it is over 120 days.
'That's a lot of toll that we've imposed on people,' said Andrew Pershing, the vice president for science at Climate Central, referring to the impact of human-induced climate change.
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