New research reveals for the first time why Europe could gain more than an extra month of summer days by 2100 using climate data from the last millennia.
New research reveals for the first time why Europe could gain more than an extra month of summer days by 2100 using climate data from the last millennia.
It’s well understood that summers in recent decades have been getting hotter and longer. However, a new study, led by Royal Holloway, University of London, working with the University of Southampton and several European universities, shows the trend we observe today echoes similar conditions across Europe 6,000 years ago.
Findings are published in the journal Nature Communications .
During this period natural Arctic warming stretched the warm season to nearly 200 days a year; a duration comparable to the most extreme modern warm seasons.
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