Editorial

„Told you so“ – that’s what climate scientists must often think when they hear complaints about extremely high temperatures. In last year’s 6th Assessment Report, the IPCC warned about heat waves, droughts and extreme weather in the Mediterranean and the United States, as Bernhard Pötter reports. The report at that time reads like a preview of the impacts of climate change that we are currently seeing in many regions of the world and that we are still facing in the near future.