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Monday, October 29, 2012

Hurricane Sandy & Climate Change

Hurricane Sandy is in the house.  It's no coincidence that one of the most powerful storms is happening on the heels of climate change.  Watch the embedded video here.  This is from the 2007 IPCC AR-4 Report:


"Results from embedded high-resolution models and global models, ranging in grid spacing from 100 km to 9 km, project a likely increase of peak wind intensities and notably, where analysed, increased near-storm precipitation in future tropical cyclones. Most recent published modelling studies investigating tropical storm frequency simulate a decrease in the overall number of storms, though there is less confidence in these projections and in the projected decrease of relatively weak storms in most basins, with an increase in the numbers of the most intense tropical cyclones."

 

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