PARIS: The heatwave scorching Europe has the fingerprints of climate change all over it and is “the latest price to pay for fossil fuel pollution baking our planet,” UN climate chief Simon Stiell said Thursday. Europe has endured extreme heat this week, with record-breaking temperatures in France, Britain and Spain and other countries issuing high-level heat alerts. “Europe’s savage heatwave has the fingerprints of the climate crisis all over it — it’s the latest price to pay for fossil fuel pollution baking our planet,” Stiell said in a statement.

Climate change is making extremely dangerous heat waves like this one more common.

“Record-shattering temperatures are feeding demand for air conditioning and driving surges in demand for electricity.”

Europe’s heatwave endangers lives as well as incomes.