Europe's Inferno: A Devastating Reality Check on Climate Change Wildfires are ravaging southwestern France and northern Spain, displacing thousands of people and leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.
The scale of the disaster is breathtaking – flames have consumed an area roughly four times the size of Paris, with no end in sight. The chaos has a sense of déjà vu, as if we've seen this before.
Climate change has been warning us for years about rising temperatures and extreme weather events. But despite these warnings, we're often caught off guard by the magnitude of these disasters.