Doyle Rice

USA TODAY

From Europe to India to Australia, climate change worsened several deadly heat waves around the world in 2015, according to a report released Thursday.

"We’re seeing mounting evidence that climate change is making heat waves more extreme in many regions around the world,” said report lead editor Stephanie C. Herring, a scientist with the National Centers for Environmental Information at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) .

In all, 10 extreme hot streaks last year, including heat waves in Europe, Egypt, India, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Japan and Australia, were worsened by climate change.

Heat waves in Egypt, India and Pakistan killed thousands of people, while 10,000 people suffered from heat stroke in Japan. The European heat wave shattered temperature records in France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and other countries.

"Without exception, all the heat-related events studied ... were found to have been made more intense or likely due to human-induced climate change," the report said.

Man-made climate change is due to the burning of fossil fuels such as gas, oil and coal, which release greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide that have heated the planet to levels that cannot be explained by natural factors.

In the U.S., the report found Alaska's intense wildfire season and a "sunny day" tidal flood that swamped Miami in September 2015 could also be linked to man-made climate change.

Last year's Alaska fire season burned the second-largest number of acres since records began in 1940. And in Florida, the report said that the risk of tidal flooding in the Miami area similar to the September 2015 floods has increased by greater than 500% since 1994.

“With this report, we continue to document scientists’ growing ability to identify how climate change influences today’s weather,” said Jeff Rosenfeld, editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

The report "shows the scientific community and the public that once seemingly impossible insights about climate impacts are now within the capability of timely, rigorous science,” he added.

The report, written by 116 scientists from 18 countries, was released Thursday by NOAA at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco and published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. This is the fifth year the report has been released.