{"id":2978,"date":"2026-06-26T06:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:37:20","slug":"europes-heatwave-virtually-impossible-without-climate-change-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2978","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s heatwave &#8216;virtually impossible&#8217; without climate change, scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Summary<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><\/div><\/div><div>BRUSSELS, June 26 (Reuters) &#8211; The record-breaking heatwave engulfing Western Europe would have been &#8220;virtually \u200cimpossible&#8221; without human-caused climate change, which has made this week&#8217;s soaring night-time temperatures 100 times more likely than they would have been just two decades ago, scientists said on Friday.<\/div><div>&#8220;Over the region studied, this heatwave is the most severe ever recorded,&#8221; the \u200bWorld Weather Attribution group of climate scientists said in an analysis.<\/div><div>Britain recorded a record-high temperature for \u200bJune on Thursday, amid the deadly heatwave that has killed dozens, disrupted power supplies and \u2060shut schools and cultural landmarks.<\/div><div>Global warming has worsened Europe&#8217;s heatwaves in just a few decades, the WWA \u200banalysis found. A similar heatwave in June 1976 would have been around 3.5 degrees Celsius cooler than this \u200bone, WWA said.<\/div><div>Of more than 800 European cities analysed, 45% have recorded, or are forecast to record, their highest heat stress levels for late June, the research found. Heat stress occurs when the body cannot cool itself through sweating.<\/div><h2>GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS DRIVE \u200bWARMING<\/h2><div>Scientists have confirmed through years of studies that human-caused global warming is making heatwaves both more likely \u200band intense. Greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from burning coal, oil and gas, have increased the planet&#8217;s average temperature to around 1.4 \u200cC \u2060above pre-industrial times in the 19th century, according to the World Meteorological Organization.<\/div><div>&#8220;We are not doing enough to slow the rate of global warming at the moment. And so as that rate of warming continues &#8230; we should expect to see record temperatures being exceeded more and more frequently,&#8221; said Clair Barnes, a research associate \u200bin extreme weather at Imperial \u200bCollege London, who co-authored \u2060the WWA analysis.<\/div><div>Europe is the world&#8217;s fastest-warming continent.<\/div><div>The WWA analysis said the health impacts of this heatwave are just beginning to emerge, and pointed to a scientific \u200bstudy which found more than 60,000 people died from heat-related causes amid a series \u200bof heatwaves in \u2060the summer of 2022.<\/div><div>Health risks in heatwaves are exacerbated by extreme night-time temperatures, which hamper the body&#8217;s ability to recover from daytime stress. In parts of France, overnight temperatures have stayed above 20 C for more than a \u2060week \u2014 \u200ba temperature threshold known as a &#8220;tropical night&#8221; \u2014 with some nights recording \u200bminimum temperatures of nearly 30 C.<\/div><div>The El Ni\u00f1o weather pattern, which has formed in the tropical Pacific and tends to increase global temperatures, \u200bdid not contribute to Europe&#8217;s severe heat, WWA said.<\/div><div><address><div><div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Kate Abnett\" class=\"wp-image-9\" src=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a8d647782541686b4c9068dd2dfa6f30.avif\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div><div>Kate Abnett<\/div><\/div><div><ul><li><span><div><svg><title>Email<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><li><span><div><svg><title>Link<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/address><\/div><\/div><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2976\">Germany plans to ease pension burden, but young still face an uphill climb<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2973\">Vance, Rubio strike different tone on Iran and Israel<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2971\">Australia considers tougher enforcement of social media ban for teens<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human-caused climate change made this week&#8217;s soaring night-time temperatures 100 times more likely than they would have been just two decades ago, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[113,13,5,78],"class_list":["post-2978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-clean-energy","tag-climate-change","tag-governance","tag-regulatory-oversight"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Europe&#039;s heatwave &#039;virtually impossible&#039; 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