A heatwave in 2025 would have been one-third of a degree cooler without the greenhouse gases released since 2015.
Fossil-fuel emissions produced since 2015 — when countries adopted the Paris agreement to limit global warming — have worsened Europe’s recent heatwaves1.
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03035-w