AMSTERDAM (AP) The heat wave that smashed temperature records in Western Europe last month was made more intense by man-made climate change, according to a study published Friday.

The rapid study by a respected team of European scientists points to an array of evidence that man-made global warming was behind the continents most recent heat wave.

The July 2019 heat wave was so extreme over continental Western Europe that the observed magnitudes would have been extremely unlikely without climate change, the study concluded.

In countries where millions of people sweltered through the heat wave, temperatures would have been 1.5 to 3 degrees Celsius (2.7 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) lower in a world without human-induced climate change, the study said.