Climate change could bring year-round heat waves: UN researcher (phys.org)

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As Europe and other regions swelter, a UN researcher cautioned that climate change was enabling increasingly intense and long-lasting heat waves, which in some areas could soon begin to hit year-round.

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[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

A year round heatwave is not a heat wave, that is the new normal temperature.

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