There were more than 16,000 excess deaths in Europe due to heatwaves driven by climate change this summer, researchers have concluded.

Looking at the impact of a warming world on excess mortality, they said of these deaths, 1,147 were in the UK.

The study released today looked at cities across the continent during the roasting hot summer, the warmest on record, which saw temperatures of 46C in Spain and Portugal.

Overall, the researchers estimated 2025 was 1.3°C hotter than it would have been without man-made climate change, but that the effect was more pronounced in the summer months: August was an estimated 2.3°C hotter, for example.

Jim Dale, a meteorologist who wrote ‘Surviving Extreme Weather: The Complete Climate Change Preparedness Manual’, told Metro: ‘Am I surprised that peopl

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