Heat waves and droughts will get longer even if global warming is limited: scientists
With one degree of warming since pre-industrial times so far, extreme
weather of this kind has already become more intense, with a single heat
wave in 2003 leading to 70,000 excess deaths in Europe alone.
weather of this kind has already become more intense, with a single heat
wave in 2003 leading to 70,000 excess deaths in Europe alone.
But the new study,
published in the journal Nature Climate Change, is the first to
quantify how much longer such events are likely to last if temperatures
rise another degree.