Deadlier days ahead for Mediterranean?

Study figures region's dangerously hot days will rise 200 to 500 percent WASHINGTON - Deadly heat waves around the Mediterranean, like those that killed some 18,000 people in 2003, could become the norm this century if current trends in greenhouse emissions continue, researchers reported on Friday.

The number of dangerously hot days in the Mediterranean region that includes parts of Europe, Africa and the Middle East could increase by 200 percent to 500 percent, according to a study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

France would have the biggest rise in extreme high temperature days, the study said. Paris would truly sizzle if simulations of the future come to pass, with temperatures that occurred in the French capital during the killer heat wave of 2003 exceeded dozens of times each year.

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