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Why Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average

Beachgoers on the shore of Lake Lacanau in southwestern France as clouds of smoke rise from the Gironde wildfire. | Maximilien Lamy/AFP via Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. An underappreciated surreality of climate change is the incredible sense of déjà vu: Every heat wave seems to be the new worst; every hurricane season seems to break records. The wildfires sweeping France and Spain this week are the latest entries in that grim catalog. They are the la...