Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate
Abstract Over the last decade, the world warmed by 0.25 °C, in-line with the roughly linear trend since the 1970s. Here we present updated analyses showing that this seemingly small shift has led to the emergence of heat extremes that would be virtually impossible without anthropogenic global warmin...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-10-01
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Series: | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-021-00202-w |