Greenhouse emissions linked to a gas field being developed by Australian fossil fuel company Woodside could lead to the death of at least 480 people and expose more than half a million to unprecedented heat, new research suggests.

Scientists from six universities have examined the climate impact of the $16.5bn Scarborough project , which is expected to start production off the northern Western Australian coast next year and could result in 876m tonnes of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere over three decades.

Emissions from the project would contribute 0.00039C to global heating, they estimate. Using recently developed techniques known as climate attribution , they suggest that fraction of warming would expose an additional 516,000 people globally to unprecedented hea

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