Climate models have underestimated the increase in extreme temperatures over the past 70 years in some regions, including UK and northern France, southern Australia and northern Canada.
As the planet warms, other regions could also experience even more extreme heat waves than these climate models project, according to Kai Kornhuber at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.
“Extreme event projections should be considered conservative estimates,” says Kornhuber. “What we must prepare for…
