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> Temperatures in Europe have increased at more than twice the global average over the past 30 years – the highest of any continent in the world.

https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/temperatures-e...

And since, then https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/wildfires-greece-burn-f...

So, no, Europe is not least affected or best off.

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The Greek wildfires may be a poor example here, as arson is suspected: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/corfu-wildfi... . It's too early to ascribe a cause.

From that article:

> However once ignited, wildfires are being driven to larger and more intense extremes due to rising global heat and drought conditions caused by the climate crisis.

Arson is always 'suspected'. You can't burn an entire forest if it isn't already catastrophically dried out.

That's a very bad take, as it covers only fires in Corfu specifically (and that see other replies regarding that), but not the extreme heat in general over Greece, Italy ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/25/italy-wildfire... ) and most of the rest of Europe, and the other fires in other parts of Greece, e.g. Rhodes https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66297476 , Evia https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/24/greece-wildfir... etc.

Reducing Europe's summer 2023 to "The Greek wildfires" - fires plural - and then to "some arson on Corfu" is ridiculous minimisation.

I don't intend to reduce Europe's summer to Greek wildfires, in fact quite the opposite, I want to point out that they are a bad example because their causes are still being investigated.

Rhodes's firefighters also suspect arson ( https://greekreporter.com/2023/07/26/wildfires-arson-greece/ ) and arrests have been made on Kefalonia ( https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/07/25/kefalonia-two-arrests-... ).

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