New computation method for climate extremes: Researchers reveal 10-fold increase in heat over Europe

How much will heat, floods, droughts and storms increase due to human-induced climate change? In a groundbreaking study, climatologist Gottfried Kirchengast and his team from the University of Graz have developed a new method for calculating the dangers of extreme events: it can calculate all relevant hazard measures for events such as heat waves, floods and droughts in any region of the world with unprecedented information content.