Two largest cities in Australia - Melbourne and Sydney - in 25 years can survive the heat of + 50 ° C This is evidenced by the study of the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne, reports BBC.

In this case, the summer months in Australia will be anomalously hot even if global warming will be kept within the framework of the Paris climate agreement.

According to research manager Dr. Sophie Lewis, Melbourne and Sydney will suffer from a heat + 50 ° C already between 2040 and 2050, with an average annual temperature rise at the pre-industrial level of 2 ° C.

In the summer of 2013 in Sydney recorded a record temperature of 45.8 ° C. Melbourne set a temperature record back in 2009 - 46.4 ° C.

"One of the hottest years in the history of observations - 2015 - may be average compared to as early as 2025," said study leader Dr. Sophie Lewis.

A new study predicts temperature only to the states of Victoria and New South Wales, although scientists note that warming will affect other regions of Australia.