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More than half the world could see \u2018record-setting heat\u2019 every year by 2100<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

More than half of the world could see new temperature records set in every single year by the end of the century if global warming is not curbed, a study finds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And new heat records could be set in two-thirds of the world\u2019s least developed countries each year by 2100 under the same scenario, the research adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Limiting global warming to below 2C above pre-industrial levels could reduce the extent of land seeing record-setting heat by almost three quarters, the lead author tells Carbon Brief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research \u201cnicely illustrates the pace of change\u201d, another scientist tells Carbon Brief. However, it is worth noting that there are limitations to using climate models to project future temperature extremes, he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heating up<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate change is causing unprecedented heat extremes<\/a> worldwide. The past four years<\/a>have been the warmest on record \u2013 with 2016 being the hottest<\/a> year ever recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, temperatures at the Mitribah weather station in Kuwait reached 53.9C \u2013 the highest ever seen in Asia, according to a recent study<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glossary RCP2.6:<\/strong>\u00a0The RCPs (Representative Concentration Pathways) are scenarios of future concentrations of greenhouse gases and other forcings. RCP2.6 (also sometimes referred to as \u201cRCP3-PD\u201d) is a \u201cpeak and decline\u201d scenario where stringent mitigation\u2026\u00a0Read More<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During last summer\u2019s northern-hemisphere heatwave<\/a>, temperature records were broken in cities across the world, including Belfast, Montreal, Denver and Kumagaya<\/a> in Japan<\/a>. The world also saw its highest ever \u201cminimum\u201d temperature, when a city in Oman<\/a>experienced a 24-hour period where temperatures did not drop below 42.6C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new study, published in\u00a0Nature Climate Change<\/a>, explores how often new temperature records are likely to be set in the future across every world region. Lead author\u00a0Dr Scott Power<\/a>, head of climate research at the Australian government\u2019s\u00a0Bureau of Meteorology<\/a>, explains to Carbon Brief:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More than half the world could see \u2018record-setting heat\u2019 every year by 2100 More than half of the world could see new temperature records set in every single year by the end of the century if global warming is not curbed, a study finds. And new heat records could be set in two-thirds of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18444,288,1144],"class_list":["post-46808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-daisy-dunne","tag-extreme-weather","tag-heat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46810,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46808\/revisions\/46810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}