Record-smashing heat extremes may become much more likely with climate change - study

FILE PHOTO: Swimmers cool off in the Thompson River under a blanket of smoke from nearby wildfires in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada July 15, 2021. REUTERS/Jennifer Gauthier/File Photo

(Reuters) - Cyprus. Cuba. Turkey. Canada. Northern Ireland. Antarctica. All recorded their hottest-ever temperatures in the last two years, and according to a new study, more such extremes are coming.

In the next three decades, "record-shattering" heat waves could become two to seven times more frequent in the world than in the last 30 years, scientists report in a study published Monday https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01092-9 in the journal Nature Climate Change.