Climate researcher Vimeux warns: Today's heat waves could become the norm by 2050

Paris - 04.07.2026: In the radio program "Tout est politique" on Franceinfo on 3 July 2026, climate researcher Françoise Vimeux (Institut de recherche pour le développement, IRD) warned that today's heat waves could become part of a new meteorological normal by 2050. The background is climate projections that expect a marked increase in the frequency, duration and intensity of extreme heat events if global emissions do not fall more quickly.Vimeux explained that as climate change progresses the entire temperature distribution shifts: what is considered an exceptional event today occurs more ...