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Published online 12 January 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040105-16
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Extreme heat on the rise
Climate model predicts more stifling summers.
The heatwave that paralysed Europe last summer was hailed as a harbinger of global warming by many, including climatologists who predicted wilder extremes in floods, droughts and storms thanks to climate change. Results from a climate model now add evidence to the idea that extreme temperature events are set to rise - for Europe at least1.
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