Existing regional climate models have disregarded air pollution, significantly underestimating the prospects for the European summer.
This summer, we should brace ourselves for heatwaves, droughts, and stifling humidity. Temperatures will soar even higher than originally anticipated. Leading European and American centers concur that another above-average summer awaits central Europe, reports New Scientist.
According to a study, meteorologists did not account for intensified solar radiation due to air pollution in their initial forecasts. This could result in warming by more than 1°C on average.
Dominik Schumacher from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich stated that the primary reason why regional climate models failed to reproduce human-induced warming is that most of them assume air pollution to be constant. Experts warn us to expect the hottest summer in recorded history.
