‘Climate change is running rampant’: Europe’s heatwave ‘virtually impossible’ 50 years ago

Europe is sweltering through a heatwave that climate scientists say would have been virtually impossible fifty years ago. According to Euronews, continued fossil fuel emissions are directly responsible for the disruption people are experiencing. The finding underscores how rapidly global temperatures are reshaping the boundaries of what counts as extreme weather.

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