The disaster databases the IPCC and climate negotiators use as a proxy for reality do not track heatwaves in Africa. The largest of these databases thus records only 2 heatwaves on the entire African continent since 1900, but 83 heatwaves in Europe in the last 40 years alone.
This is quite helpful for keeping the heat off Wall Street and the fossil fuel industry, so they may preside in comfort over a genocide in progress. That is not hyperbole. In 2020, scientists around the world teamed up to study the hottest temperatures found on Earth, limited today to less than 1 percent of global land mass. They found that if current emission trends continue, by 2070 a fifth of the Earth’s land, home to 1 in 3 human beings, will be rendered too hot for human habitation. Look at the areas impacted:
