Europe’s blistering summer was a “grim illustration” of human-caused climate change.
That’s what the European Commission said in June, when much of the continent was already baking under its third heatwave of the year.
July and August provided little relief, bringing with them extreme heat scientists say would have been “virtually impossible” if it weren’t for the burning of fossil fuels.
Scorching temperatures and scant rainfall cast huge swathes of Europe into drought, paving the way for deadly wildfires that ravaged Spain, Portugal, France, Greece and Türkiye – burning thousands of hectares and resulting in the biggest evacuation effort since the Second World War.
But with September just around the corner, are things finally about to cool down?
