Equilibrium climate sensitivity estimates from IPCC AR5, CMIP5, and early CMIP6 models. Graphic: Stephen Belcher / Carbon Brief

Earth warming more quickly than thought, new climate models show – “We have better models now. They have better resolution, and they represent current climate trends more accurately.”

By Marlowe Hood 17 September 2019 (AFP) – Greenhouse gases thrust into the atmosphere mainly by burning fossil fuels are warming Earth’s surface more quickly than previously understood, according to new climate models set to replace those used in current UN projections, scientists said Tuesday. By 2100, average temperatures could rise 7.0 degrees Celsius above […]

A bird sits on a straw bale on a field in Frankfurt, Germany, as the sun rises on Thursday, 25 July 2019 during Europe's record-breaking heatwave. Photo: Michael Probst / AP Photo

The full scoop on Europe’s historic onslaught of heat – At least five nations had highest temperatures on record – Hottest day ever observed at hundreds of locations

By Bob Henson 26 July 2019 (Weather Underground) – Temperatures on Friday soared above 40°C (104°F) in Germany for an unprecedented third day in a row—and that’s just one in a mind-boggling swarm of all-time heat records set across western and northern Europe this week. At least five nations saw their highest temperatures on record, […]

A woman walks past a window reflecting a thermometer showing a temperature of 41 degrees Celsius on 25 July 2019, in Paris, as a new heatwave hits the French capital. Photo: Dominique Faget / AFP / Getty Images

All-time heat records melt in Europe – Paris warmer than Singapore at 42.6°C (108.7°F) – National records broken on Wednesday fell again on Thursday – “‘If you’d have said five years ago we’d see temperature records fall this frequently, I wouldn’t have believed you”

By William Wilkes and Megan Durisin 24 July 2019 (Bloomberg) – Europe’s latest summer heatwave broke heat records just weeks after the continent had its hottest ever June, fueling concern that a shifting climate is triggering more extreme weather. Germany probably set a new all-time temperature record of 42.6 degrees Celsius (108.7 Fahrenheit) in the […]

Forecast high-temperature departures from average for the European heat wave through Saturday, 27 July 2019. Areas in darker red and pink contours are expected to see temperatures the most above average each day. Graphic: The Weather Channel

Another Europe heat wave shatters all-time records in Belgium and the Netherlands with more records possible

By Jonathan Erdman 24 July 2019 (The Weather Channel) – Another Europe heat wave is building that may shatter the all-time record in Paris and set national records in at least three countries as it spreads into Scandinavia. On Wednesday, all-time record highs were broken in Belgium and the Netherlands when temperatures reached 102.3 degrees and 101.8 […]

Two women cool themselves down in the Trocadero Fountain near the Eiffel Tower in Paris during a heatwave on 28 June 2019. The temperature in France on 28 June 2019 surpassed 45 degrees Celsius for the first time on record. Photo: AFP

Paris braces for record heat as Europe scorched again

22 July 2019 (AFP) – Parisians were bracing on Monday for potentially the hottest ever temperature in the French capital this week as a new heatwave blasted into northern Europe that could set records in several countries. Temperatures were already topping 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday in Paris, but the mercury could […]

Temperature forecast for Europe, 25 July 2019. Graphic: Wetterzentrale

Germany braces for fourth heatwave of summer – “That is not normal anymore. It’s everything other than normal.”

22 July 2019 (The Local) – Temperatures could exceed 38C in some parts of the Bundesrepublik this week during a record fourth summer heat wave. On Thursday temperatures around Germany will spike to up 38C – reigning in the fourth heat wave of the summer. Due to climate change, says Latif, there is double the […]

Predicted temperature anomaly over Europe for 26 July 2019. Graphic; MetDesk / WXCHARTS

Intense heat with near-record breaking temperatures will develop across Benelux, W Germany and N France this week, 23-26 July 2019 – Temperatures above 40°C locally possible

22 July 2019 (SWE) – A development of another potentially record-breaking heat wave is expected this week. Again, similar to the late June intense and record-breaking heat wave for S France, extreme heat will spread across western Europe. We could actually see additional new record-breaking temperature values, precisely across parts of NE France, Benelux and […]

The rank of the highest 3-day averaged mean temperature in June 2019. Dark red shows where it was the warmest 3-day heat wave in June since 1950, bright red the second-highest, etc. Graphic: E-OBS

Global warming made record-breaking June 2019 European heatwave at least five times likelier – “This is a strong reminder again that climate change is happening here and now. It is not a problem for our kids only.”

By Damian Carrington 2 July 2019 (The Guardian) – The record-breaking heatwave that struck France and other European nations in June was made at least five – and possibly 100 – times more likely by climate change, scientists have calculated. Such heatwaves are also about 4C hotter than a century ago, the researchers say. Furthermore, the […]

Aerial view of people cooling off at a lake in Haltern am See, western Germany, on 26 June 2019. Temperatures in Gemany reached as high as 38.6°C that day, setting a new all-time German heat record for June that had stood since 1947. That record was beaten again on Sunday, 30 June 2019, with a 39.6°C reading at river Saale. Photo: Ina Fassbender / AFP / Getty Images

European heat wave shifts east, all-time heat records tumble in Germany – “For all practical purposes, the heat wave is caused by human-made global warming”

By Dr. Jeff Masters 1 July 2019 (Weather Underground) – More than 30 locations in Central Europe—including towns and cities in Denmark, France, Germany, and Poland—set all-time heat records on Sunday as the continent’s historic June heat wave of 2019 shifted eastward. Three nations set all-time heat records for the month of June on Sunday: […]

Triathlete Jan Frodeno of Germany tries to cool down on his way to win the Ironman triathlon European Championships in Frankfurt, Germany, 30 June 2019. Photo: Kai Pfaffenbach / REUTERS

Europe heatwave burns on, two cyclists die from record temperatures – “It felt like a race against global warming. You could have fried an egg on my head.”

By Gus Trompiz and Joan Faus 30 June 2019 PARIS/MADRID (Reuters) – A four-day heatwave across western Europe that killed seven people began to ease slightly on Sunday, as temperature alerts were cut back and wildfires slowly brought under control. Most of the fires that had broken out Spain in recent days were stabilized, but […]

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