Getty ImagesGet used to living in an unprecedented era that is constantly topping itself, at least when it comes to extreme weather events. That’s the message in a new study on the relationship between climate change and record-breaking rainfall, heat waves and other events. “Under a high-emissions scenario, and compared to the past 3 decades, record-shattering heat extremes are 2 to 7 times and 3 to 21 times more probable in 2021–2050 and 2051–2080, respectively. So this new research offers the kind of silver lining that we don’t always get with the latest climate paper. “If the (human-caused) warming were stabilized, the frequency and intensity of heat extremes would be higher than in the historical periods but the probability of record-shattering extremes would rapidly decline,” the paper reads.

Source: Forbes July 27, 2021 03:22 UTC