<span style="color: #222222;">European Union scientists&nbsp;have&nbsp;said that Europe experienced its second-warmest year on record in 2022 as climate change unleashed record-breaking weather extremes. It slashed crop yields, dried up rivers and led to thousands of deaths. The EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said, 2022 was also the world's fifth-warmest year.<br />”<br />”Europe experienced its warmest summer, with temperatures increasing by more than twice the global average over the past three decades, faster than any other continent. The last eight years are now also the warmest eight yet recorded.<br />”<br />”Temperature records in many western European countries were broken with summer heatwaves and intense droughts hitting many parts.</span><br />