Climate change has made the record-breaking temperatures that roasted parts of Europe this summer at least 10 times more likely, scientists reported Wednesday .
"We found clear evidence of human influence on this summer's record warmth, both in the overall summer temperatures and in the heatwave dubbed `Lucifer'," said study co-author Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, a senior researcher at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.

"Climate change made the summer of 2017 at least 10 times more likely than it would have been during the early 1900s," he said in a statement. What used to be once-in-a-century calamity, in other words, is now to be expected every decade.

And if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, a summer like 2017 will become the new normal along Europe's Mediterranean rim by midcentury , researchers added.....Read more

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