Hot Century Ahead: Study Finds Onslaught of Heat Waves Now Inevitable | Common Dreams

Hot Century Ahead: Study Finds Onslaught of Heat Waves Now Inevitable | Common Dreams
"No amount of emissions mitigation can stop this frequency from doubling by the year 2020 and quadrupling by 2040, and by the latter year, extreme heat events will cover 20 percent of the globe. Furthermore, 5-sigma events, which do not occur presently, are expected to ravage 3 percent of the world's surface by 2040.

Study scientists claim that humanity's best hope is to stabilize heatwaves in the second half of the 21st century through an aggressive curb on greenhouse gases."