The UK experienced a record-breaking heat wave in July 2022
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We should face worse-than-expected heat waves in the coming years, with climate models underestimating the strength of these events in some areas, including the United Kingdom and northern France, southern Australia and northern Canada.
As the world warms further, these areas and others could see heat extremes that exceed what climate models are projecting, he says. Kai Kornhuber at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.
“Projections of extreme events should be considered conservative estimates”…
