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December 4, 2019

Report: Europe Could Face Annual Extreme Heat Waves Due to Climate Change
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The European Union Environmental Agency is warning wide swaths of Europe
could face annual extreme heat waves unless urgent action is taken to
dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avert the most
catastrophic impacts of climate change. This is Hans Bruyninckx of the
European Union Environmental Agency, which released its new report this
week amid the U.N. Climate Change Summit in Madrid, Spain.

Hans Bruyninckx: "Things are indeed urgent. We need to bend the trends
in the next decade, it's a critical decade. We already see irreversible
damage, climate change is happening, biodiversity is lost, species are
disappearing, our oceans are changing fundamentally."

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