A recent study in the American Geophysical Union’sJournal of
Geophysical Research-Atmospheres confirms that it really is
getting hotter. The study found heat waves in Europe have
doubled in length and that extremely hot days are three times as
common as a century ago. From the AGU press release: The new
data shows that many previous assessments of daily summer
temperature change underestimated heat wave events in western
Europe by approximately 30 percent. Paul Della-Marta and a team
of researchers at the University of Bern in Switzerland compiled
evidence from 54 high-quality recording locations from Sweden to
Croatia and report that heat waves last an average of 3 days
now—with some lasting up to 4.5 days—compared to an average of
around 1.5 days in 1880. The results are published 3 August in
the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, a publication
of the American Geophysical Union. The researchers suggest that
their conclusions contribute to growing evidence that western
Europe’s climate has become m