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The world is on track to add nearly two months of dangerous superhot days each year by the end of the century, with small, poorer nations hit far more often than the biggest carbon-polluting countries, according to a study released Thursday.
But efforts to curb emissions of heat-trapping gases that started 10 years ago with the Paris climate agreement have had a significant effect.
Without them Earth would be heading to an additional 114 days a year of those deadly extra hot days, the same study revealed.
The Earth could double its number of superhot days
The international collection of climate scientists World Weather Attribution and the US-based Climate Central teamed up to use computer simulations to calculate just how much of a difference the
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