Scientists have stated that the global record-breaking heat in 2016, including the extreme heat in Asia, happened because of global warming, due to human activities like burning of fossil fuels. Until now, human-driven climate change has been understood to raise the odds of certain floods, droughts, storms and heat waves, but not serve as the sole cause. The 2016 heat marks a fundamental change, according to Jeff Rosenfeld, editor-in-chief of the US scientific journal Bulletin of American