Scorching Summers in Store for Mediterranean

Scorching heat could spell more dangerous summers for the Mediterranean over the next 100 years, a new analysis finds. A 2003 heat wave took 15,000 lives in France and 3,000 in Italy as temperatures soared over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, but if greenhouse gases continue to build up in the atmosphere at their present rate, temperature rises could dwarf those in Europe during that summer. “Rare events today, like the 2003 heat wave in Europe, become much more common as greenhouse gas concentrations increase,” said study team leader Noah Diffenbaugh of Purdue University in Indiana. In a simulation using emissions scenarios from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, sweltering temperatures “become the norm and the extreme events of the future are unprecedented in their severity,” he added.The study is detailed in the June 15 issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Even in simulations where emissions of greenhouse gases are tempered, Europe ends up roasting....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070614/sc_livescience/scorchingsummersinstoreformediterranean
PS:15000 lives in France...???Ill double check that data!
As in the days of Noah....