PARIS (AP) — France is experiencing another day of scorching heat, with most of the population exposed to extreme temperatures. Meteo France has placed 54 departments under a red heat wave alert. The heat is expected to last until at least the end of the week, with highs above 100 degrees Fahrenheit in many towns. The extreme weather is being compared to a notorious heat wave in August 2003, in which an estimated 15,000 people died. Europe is warming at twice the global average, and human-caused climate change is linked to increasingly extreme weather. The U.N. climate agency projects more heat records in the next five years.