Experts chart future heat waves
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Earth is headed for a record-setting heat wave after 2009, a team of climate experts said in Friday’s journal Science.
Each year from 2010 through 2014 has at least a 50% chance of being warmer than 1998, the hottest on record, said researchers led by Doug Smith of the Met Office, the weather-forecasting agency in Britain.
The estimate is the first stemming from data collected since 1990 on ocean temperatures, heat-trapping gases and other factors.
Other forecasters used information gathered from 1960 to 1990, the researchers said.
