{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["645(8080)"],"submitter":["Quilcaille Y"],"pubmed_abstract":["Extreme event attribution assesses how climate change affected climate extremes, but typically focuses on single events<sup>1-4</sup>. Furthermore, these attributions rarely quantify the extent to which anthropogenic actors have contributed to these events<sup>5,6</sup>. Here we show that climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000-2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed. This work relies on the expansion of a well-established event-based framework<sup>1</sup>. Owing to global warming since 1850-1900, the median of the heatwaves during 2000-2009 became about 20 times more likely, and about 200 times more likely during 2010-2019. Overall, one-quarter of these events were virtua"],"journal":["Nature"],"pagination":["392-398"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12422948"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors."],"pmcid":["PMC12422948"],"pubmed_authors":["Gudmundsson L","Lejeune Q","Seneviratne SI","Quilcaille Y","Thiery W","Heede R","Schumacher DL","Heri C","Naveau P","Gasser T","Schleussner CF","Nath S"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors.","description":"Extreme event attribution assesses how climate change affected climate extremes, but typically focuses on single events<sup>1-4</sup>. Furthermore, these attributions rarely quantify the extent to which anthropogenic actors have contributed to these events<sup>5,6</sup>. Here we show that climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000-2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed. This work relies on the expansion of a well-established event-based framework<sup>1</sup>. Owing to global warming since 1850-1900, the median of the heatwaves during 2000-2009 became about 20 times more likely, and about 200 times more likely during 2010-2019. Overall, one-quarter of these events were virtua","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Sep","modification":"2026-06-01T23:28:54.187Z","creation":"2026-05-23T03:08:11.438Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12422948","cross_references":{"pubmed":["40931153"],"doi":["10.1038/s41586-025-09450-9"]}}