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Scorching record-breaking heatwave 'unequivocally' due to climate change

Scorching record-breaking heatwave 'unequivocally' due to climate change
France 24 Friday 26 June 2026, 09:36 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Scorching record-breaking heatwave 'unequivocally' due to climate change France Issued on: Share As Europe bakes under a relentless heatwave, human-caused climate change is "unequivocally" responsible for its intensity, scientists say. A similar heatwave would have been 3.5C cooler during the day in June 1976. Even compared to 2003 -- when tens of thousands of people died in a major European heatwave -- the current episode was notably extreme. FRANCE 24's Kethevane Gorjestani tells us why.
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