Climate change blamed for 2,300 fatalities during Europe’s deadly heatwave [SOUND]

# A new study has found that a severe European heatwave from June 23rd to July 2nd this year caused an estimated two-thousand-300 deaths across 12 cities. This is according to the study by Imperial College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Of these deaths, around two-thirds were attributed to global warming, 88-percent of whom were over age 65. Environmental epidemiologist, Pierre Masselot, told The Independent that the world must stop burning fossil fuels: