Western Europe breaks heat records in mid-spring with deaths in United Kingdom and France

Several Western European countries this week broke historic temperature records for the boreal spring, in a heat wave described as "unprecedented" by national weather services in the United Kingdom and France, which has caused at least ten deaths and stretched the continent's health services.

The episode is part of a trend of extreme events that the scientific community links directly to human-driven climate change, according to a study published on Tuesday that concluded that the temperature spikes "are primarily attributed to human driven climate change." ...