Recent highly deadly, raging wildfires are part of summer — but it's all being made worse by human-caused climate change, scientists say. nbcnews.to/2viMbCC (1/5)
Japan hit 106 degrees on Monday, its hottest temperature ever. Records fell in parts of Massachusetts, Maine, Wyoming, Colorado, Oregon, New Mexico and Texas. nbcnews.to/2viMbCC (2/5)
And then there's crazy heat in Europe, where normally chill Norway, Sweden and Finland all saw temperatures they have never seen before on any date, pushing past 90 degrees. nbcnews.to/2viMbCC (3/5)
The devastating fire in Greece — with 80+ deaths — is the deadliest fire in Europe since 1900, according to the International Disaster Database run by the Centre for the Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters in Brussels. nbcnews.to/2viMbCC (4/5)
"We find that global warming has increased the odds of record-setting hot events over more than 80% of the planet, and has increased the odds of record-setting wet events at around half of the planet." nbcnews.to/2viMbCC (5/5)
