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Intensifying Cycle of Extreme Heat And Drought Grips Europe

Inside Climate News · By Bob Berwyn · last updated
Last summer’s heat waves killed 15,000 people, and the odds for even hotter years keep rising.

By Bob Berwyn

For Chloe Brimicombe, a climate researcher at the University of Graz in Austria, the heat and drought statistics in today’s new European State of the Climate Report for 2022 evoked grim memories of the deadly heat waves last summer in Reading, her hometown in the United Kingdom, where people died from heat exposure while waiting for help.

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