The study is published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Experts have examined heat waves over the past 65 years, identifying areas where extreme heat is much stronger than average seasonal temperatures.

These heatwaves have mostly been observed in the last five years, although some of them occurred in the early 2000s or earlier.

The regions most affected by the climate include central China, Japan, Korea, the Arabian Peninsula, eastern Australia and parts of South America and the Arctic.

However, the most intense and consistent signal comes from northwestern Europe, where a series of heatwaves led to about 60,000 casualties in 2022 and 47,000 human losses in 2023.

Climate disasters have occurred in Germany, France, Great Britain and the Netherlands and other countries. In September of this year, new maximum temperature records were set in Austria, France, Hungary, Slovenia, Norway and Sweden. Many parts of the southwestern United States and California also experienced record temperatures through October.

In these regions, extreme temperatures are rising faster than average summer temperatures, at a rate far exceeding that predicted by the most advanced climate models over the past few decades.

However, this phenomenon does not occur everywhere. The study showed that temperature increases in many other regions are lower than predicted by the models.

These include vast areas of the northern United States and southern Canada, the interior of South America, most of Siberia, north Africa and northern Australia.

The study was an important step towards addressing the growing risk caused by extreme and unprecedented heat by identifying regions that have historically faced rapidly increasing risk and quantifying the ability of models to reproduce these signals. gazeta.ru.