Europe should brace for more deadly heatwaves driven by climate change, said a sweeping report recently, noting the world’s fastest-warming continent was some 2.3 degrees Celsius hotter last year than in pre-industrial times. Crop-withering drought, record sea-surface temperatures and unprecedented glacier melt are among the consequences laid out in a report by the World Meteorological Organization and the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The continent, which has been warming at twice the global average since the 1980s, saw its warmest summer on record in 2022, with countries including France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom experiencing their warmest year on record.

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