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Half a degree matters
Discriminating the climate impacts of the 1.5°C and 2°C targets of the Paris Agreement is high priority on the post-Paris science agenda. ETH scientist Erich Fischer argues that the observational records provide important evidence of what an additional 0.5°C of warming could entail.
Concurrent hot and dry summers more common in future
In a new study published in Science Advances, Jakob Zscheischler and Sonia Seneviratne assess the risk for concurrent hot and dry summers.