Europe faces 48C Lucifer type heatwaves each summer according to the UK Met Office.
The Met Office predicts that the scorching heat experienced in southern Europe this year will return at least every three years from now on, but will be an annual feature by the end of the century even under a medium scenario of climate change - unless the brakes are put on.
Professor Peter Stott, a fellow at the Met Office’s Hadley centre told BBC’s Panorama programme: “ We can be more confident than we’ve ever been about linking extreme weather events to climate change. The increasing chances of these extreme events continue to rise as long as we continue to emit greenhouse gases.”
