As the weather in the United Kingdom exceeds 40 degrees Celsius for the first time in history (that's more than 104 degree Fahrenheit to Americans), heat-related deaths have topped 1,100 in Spain and Portugal as wildfires blaze through the Iberian peninsula. The blazes have even reached France, where 14,000 people were evacuated from the city of Bordeaux as two pine forests have been burning up for almost a week. Sporadic wildfires been burning in Greece as well, buoyed by strong winds.
The catastrophic heats and fires prompted Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to comment that "climate change kills." His sentiment is not hyperbolic; climate scientists tend to agree with the prime minister's sentiment, that the heat wave and wildfires battering Europe are connected to the climate crisis.
