Health warnings have been issued across many parts of Europe as temperatures soar to the mid-40s Celsius.

A heatwave continues to grip large parts of Europe, with authorities in many countries issuing health warnings amid searing temperatures.

Southern Spain is the worst-affected region, with temperatures in the mid-40s Celsius recorded in Seville and neighbouring areas.

A new heat record for June of 46C was set on Saturday in the town of El Granado, according to Spain’s national weather service, which also said this month is on track to be the hottest June on record.

  • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Scientists do actually make attempts to investigate the contribution of the trends to specific events, it’s called extreme event attribution, but it is a very young field and the error bars on everything are still huge. That said,

    The American Meteorological Society stated in 2016 that “the science has now advanced to the point that we can detect the effects of climate change on some events with high confidence”. [12]

    But the quote from the article was strictly correct in saying “it’s hard”.