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Greta Thunberg, Al Gore react to climate change burning Europe with record heat
Greta Thunberg and Al Gore, two of the world’s leading voices in the fight against climate change, responded on Tuesday to a record heatwave and wildfires ravaging Europe.
With temperatures devouring parts of the UK and France, Thunberg, a Swedish environmental activist, warned that the worst is yet to come.
In his own tweet published on Tuesday, Gore, the former vice president, referred to remarks made on Monday by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez when he toured an area of his country dealing with devastating wildfires.
“Climate change is killing,” Sanchez told reporters. “It kills people, it kills our ecosystems and biodiversity.”
Like Thunberg, Gore noted that unless humans take action to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the consequences of climate change will continue to intensify.
As of Tuesday, at least 1,346 people have died in Spain and Portugal due to the current heatwave, and experts say this figure is expected to rise over the coming days as extreme heat continues to whimper in places like the UK, where air conditioning is not common.
The overwhelming consensus among scientists is that humans change the Earth’s climate by continuing to burn fossil fuels. Emissions from this activity accumulated in the atmosphere, causing a global warming effect that caused temperatures to rise. As the build-up of greenhouse gases continues to intensify, climate change has accelerated in recent decades, leading to more severe heat events such as those unfolding in the Pacific Northwest last year.
