Intense heat and extreme rainfall are likely to become more common in the next two decades thanks to climate change, a damning new report warns. Experts found that a large region including Spain, Italy, Morocco, Peru, India, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia are expected to experience 'clear and rapid' increases in temperature and rainfall. Even under more optimistic scenarios, over 1.5 billion people will suffer from unbearable heat and flash floods due to these changes.
Co-author Dr Bjørn Samset told MailOnline: 'These cuts are also crucial, but for the coming years we are locked into a more extreme future.' The researchers, from the CICERO Center for International Climate Research, combined four large climate simulations to establish the scale of peak rainfall and temperature changes anticipated over the next twenty years.
Lead author Dr Carley Iles explains: 'We focus on regional changes, due to their increased relevance to the experience of people and ecosystems compared with the global mean, and identify regions projected to experience substantial changes in rates.' This analysis exposes how, under a high-emission scenario, the Mediterranean and parts of Asia and both Americas will experience unprecedented climate shifts.
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