Climate change 'hitting the world with a vengeance: Higher temperatures for longer periods of time'

According to France 24, Europe's record heatwaves are no longer exceptional events—they're evidence of permanent structural change. Emma Howard Boyd, chair of the National Heat Risk Commission at the London School of Economics, explains that Europe is warming faster than most of the world. Longer, more frequent extreme heat is now the baseline, exactly as climate models predicted. The real question: how do societies adapt when extreme heat becomes routine?

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