Image: 202505 Escalation of extreme heat - 247 countries - attribution to climate change

Description: Chart showing number of days of extreme heat over the course of one year for 247 countries and territories, broken down by days attributed to climate change and those that would have occurred without climate change. Data source: Giguere, Otto; Tanenenbaum, Vahlbert. Climate Change and the Escalation of Global Extreme Heat: Assessing and Addressing the Risks. Climate Central, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, and World Weather Attribution (30 May 2025). Archived from the original on 31 May 2025. Click on "Download the data", and in spreadsheet choose "Countries and territories" tab at bottom to view raw data. Source spreadsheet states the following, not all of which are necessarily applicable to the data used in this Wikimedia chart: "Data for all 67 extreme heat events identified as notable between May 1, 2024 and May 1, 2025 using the World Weather Attribution criteria. Population-weighted data for all 247 countries, territories, and dependencies included in the analysis, over the May 1, 2024-May 1, 2025 period. Numbers are rounded to the nearest significant figure for clarity, which does not reflect the precision of the underlying analysis." Technical note: most SVG code was automatically generated by the "Vertical bar charts (column charts)" spreadsheet linked at User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG. Additions and adjustments were made in a text editor.

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