The World Meteorological Organization said on the 19th that the current heat wave sweeping Europe will continue until next week, and the negative effects of climate change such as high temperature will continue until at least the 1960s. Robert Stefanski, director of the World Meteorological Organization's applied climate services, said at a press conference held in Geneva, Switzerland, on the 19th that from all the models of partners at the national and regional levels, the current heat wave in Europe may not end until the middle of next week. Petri Talas, Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization, said at the press conference that at 11:00 local time on the 19th, the UK reached a record high temperature of 39.1 degrees Celsius, which is expected to exceed 40 degrees Celsius later in the day. Talas said that due to climate change, new high temperature records and heat waves are becoming more and more frequent. According to WMO data, the current scale and degree of heat waves will become more and more frequent in the next few decades, and the negative trend of climate change will continue until at least the 1960s, which has nothing to do with people's success in mitigating climate change. Talas warned that the extreme high temperature weather will not only seriously affect human health, but also have a further negative impact on agricultural activities, exacerbating the current serious crop reduction caused by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. (Xinhua News Agency)