Two people were killed in blazes in Spain that its prime minister linked to global warming, saying, “Climate change kills.”
That toll comes on top of hundreds of heat-related deaths reported in the Iberian peninsula, as high temperatures have gripped the continent in recent days, and triggered wildfires from Portugal to the Balkans. Some areas, including northern Italy, are also experiencing extended droughts. Climate change makes such life-threatening extremes less of a rarity — and heat waves have come even to places like Britain, which braced for possible record-breaking temperatures.
The hot weather in the UK was expected to be so severe this week that train operators warned it could warp the rails and some schools set up wading pools to help children cool off.
The heat became so extreme that UK’s Royal Air Force halted flights in and out of its largest base because the “runway has melted,” Sky News reported Monday. READ MORE
