Intense heat baking Italy pushes northward while wildfires charred the country's south, and Spain appears to head for a record high temperature as a heatwave keeps southern Europe in a fiery hold
While the area is known for its sunny, hot summers, scientists voice little doubt that climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas is driving extreme events such as heat waves, droughts and wildfires. Such hardships are likely to happen more frequently as Earth continues to warm, they say.
Italian Premier Mario Draghi sent his emergency chief to Calabria in the south, where blazes burning for days in the rugged Aspromonte forest have claimed four lives. Italian firefighters were also battling blazes near Mount Etna, the volcano in Sicily which for months has been belching flames and lava. Authorities said fires erupted in separate locations in the woods, raising suspicions they were caused by people, either deliberately or by accident.
Spain was bracing for even hotter weather. Temperatures as high as 47°C are forecast in the south on Saturday. That would break a national record of 46.9°C , set in Cordoba in July 2017.
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