Human-caused climate change is "unequivocally" responsible for the intensity of a record-breaking heatwave scorching Europe, scientists said Friday, while experts consider the costs for an economy as productivity melts and growth becomes lethargic.

Human-induced climate change has intensified temperatures, making this year's record heat wave up to 4 degrees Celsius hotter.

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…