Scientists link Europe's record heatwave to climate change (opens in new tab)

World Weather Attribution scientists said Friday a record-breaking heatwave across Western Europe would have been “virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change, and called it the most severe heatwave ever recorded over the region studied. The rapid analysis found a similar June heatwave in 1976 would have been about 3.5 degrees Celsius cooler during the day, while this week's extreme nighttime temperatures have become far more likely than they were during the 2003 European heatwa...