evidence: Ayesha Tandon 07.26.21Ayesha Tandon 26.07.2021 | 4:00pm"Record-shattering" extremes – which break weather records by large margins – will become more likely as a result of climate change, a new study finds. [...] The study finds that record-shattering extreme events are likely to occur more frequently in the coming decades, but notes that they would be "nearly impossible" without climate change. It adds that the speed of warming is more important than the level of warming reached when determining the likelihood of these extremes. [...] As record-shattering extremes are more common in the northern mid-latitudes, the authors calculate the annual probability of at least one record-shattering event happening per year in large landmasses in the northern mid-latitudes. They determine these values for the recent past of 1991-2020 (dark blue), 2021-50 (red) and 2051-80 (light blue). The results are shown below.