Climate Change Linked to Unprecedented April Heat Wave in Mediterranean

A new study has found that the late-April heat wave in southern Europe and northern Africa would have been "almost impossible" without the added effects of human-caused climate change. The record-shattering heat was made 100 times more likely because of climate change, the study found. Climate change has made heat waves more common, longer and hotter, scientists say. The researchers found climate change made the heat wave "at least 100 times more likely," and temperatures were more than 6 degrees hotter than they would have been without climate change. Early-season heat waves can be deadly.