The current heatwave in Europe is “unmistakably” caused by climate change, research collective World Weather Attribution (WWA) concluded in an analysis in which researchers from the KNMI also participated. According to the researchers, the current temperatures would have been virtually impossible 50 years ago.The scientists compared the current heatwave to the situation in 1976, when heat records were set in several European countries. They also looked at the first major heatwave of this century in 2003.