Record-breaking heat waves in US and Europe prove climate change is already here, experts say

Record-breaking heat waves in US and Europe prove climate change is already here, experts say

Concurrent heat waves across the globe will continue to shatter records.

Hundreds of millions of people around the world are currently experiencing sweltering, dangerous heat — a new reality as the effects of climate change continue to manifest in severe weather events of every kind.

A scorching airmass remains over the majority of the continental U.S. on Wednesday, with a heat dome sitting over the Southwest and Great Plains and triple-digit temperatures stretching throughout the Midwest and up and down the East Coast.

Read more on ABC News.

ABC News Research area