Dangerous weather events typically associated with extreme global warming could become more frequent even under moderate levels of heating, a new study finds.
Deadly floods in cities and catastrophic droughts in major crop-producing regions may hit more often than previously thought under a climate scenario where global temperatures stabilize at around 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels, researchers found. The same goes for forest wildfires, which could be more frequent and devastating under a 3.6 F scenario than scientists previously understood.
