Important climate research from a team of scientists at Stanford University was announced in June. The research indicates that "many tropical regions in Africa, Asia and South America could see "the permanent emergence of unprecedented summer heat" in the next two decades. Middle latitudes of Europe, China and North America – including the United States – are likely to undergo extreme summer temperature shifts . . ."

Stanford released an article summarizing the research along with a short video featuring one of the researchers on its website here. The video clip is also included below.

The complete research report is available in PDF form here, Observational and model evidence of global emergence of permanent, unprecedented heat in the 20th and 21st centuries