Fact Check: How Does Climate Change Impact Heatwaves?

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Extreme heat in Germany - extreme weather or the result of climate change?

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Germany is experiencing a short but extreme heat wave. Temperatures are likely to scratch the 40-degree mark locally. "Climate change is proven to have its consequences, which is quite difficult to figure out," says world science editor Axel Bojanowski.

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Germany is sweating under a record-breaking June heat wave. And the next wave is already coming. A weather column by Dominik Jung.

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Pope Leo XIV has warned of the dangerous impact of climate change during a heat wave that has been plaguing Europe for several days. In a letter addressed to believers around the world, he stressed that the possible impact of "ecological devastation" is not being taken seriously enough, the DPA agency reports. "Extreme natural phenomena caused by human-induced climate change are becoming more intense and frequent, not to mention the short-term a…

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The heat wave is not an exclusive thing of Spain, but it spreads — by virtue of a changing climate, as is increasingly evident — throughout Europe. Even in the cold and pragmatic Germany: the Teutonic citizens, who suffer these days temperatures above 30o, look with understanding, or with less condescension, to the Europeans of the Mediterranean. The German country, by the way, is suffering not only African temperatures, but a sudden surge of fa…