The heat waves scorching Europe were given a serious boost by climate change

Prolonged and expansive heat waves have altered daily life in Europe, causing train cancellations and transforming typically verdant terrain into yellowed lands.

Although heat waves are stoked by a confluence of weather events like the behavior of winds high up in the atmosphere, the rise in global temperatures spurred on by human-caused climate change has given heat waves — including this one — a potent boost.

"It’s safe to say as the world is warming up, we shouldn’t be surprised we’re going to get these extreme heatwaves here [United Kingdom], and all over the world," Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading in the UK, said in an interview.  Read more...

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