FILE PHOTO: An athlete tries to cool down as he competes in the Ironman triathlon European Championships in Frankfurt, Germany, June 30, 2019. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
LONDON (Reuters) - Man-made climate change probably made last month's European heatwave, in which southern France experienced a national record 45.9 degrees Celsius (114.6 Fahrenheit), 4C (7F) hotter than it would otherwise have been, scientists said on Tuesday.
"Climate change is no longer an abstract increase in global mean temperature, but a difference you can feel when you step outside in a heatwave," said Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Senior Researcher at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and one of the paper’s authors.
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