Published: July 20th, 2023,
Last updated: July 21st, 2023
Europe is currently gripped by heat waves. But beyond the current maximum temperatures, a team of researchers from the Crowther Lab study group at ETH Zurich were interested in how the urban climate in different regions will change in the long term. They analyzed temperature and precipitation data from 520 cities around the world and combined it with an optimistic estimate that the world will warm by a global average of 1.4 degrees by 2050.