Rising death toll includes 212 fatalities over four days linked to high temperatures in Spain alone

Human-caused climate change is tied to increasingly extreme weather, and U.N. climate agency projections say the next five years are likely to shatter more heat records.

Relentless, deadly heat is tightening its grip on Europe, with national temperature records expected to not just fall but be obliterated this week. For Europe, it’s a wake up call…