FLASH floods in the Mediterranean, more snow for north-eastern Europe and irregular weather patterns across eastern North America. That’s the forecast for later this century, according to the most recent climate-change predictions.
Using the latest data from 20 global climate simulations, Filippo Giorgi of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, has calculated which parts of the world will have experienced the biggest swings in climate by the end of this century. Based on projected changes in precipitation, temperature and climate variability, he developed a climate-change index that he used to rank regions according to the…
