Posted on 11/01/2011 8:50:00 AM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTON (AP) — Freakish weather disasters — from the sudden October snowstorm in the Northeast U.S. to the record floods in Thailand — are striking more often. And global warming is likely to spawn more similar weather extremes at a huge cost, says a draft summary of an international climate report obtained by The Associated Press.
The final draft of the report from a panel of the world's top climate scientists paints a wild future for a world already weary of weather catastrophes costing billions of dollars. The report says costs will rise and perhaps some locations will become "increasingly marginal as places to live."
The report from the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be issued in a few weeks, after a meeting in Uganda. It says there is at least a 2-in-3 probability that climate extremes have already worsened because of man-made greenhouse gases.
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Name-dropping and unsupported assertions do not make good science. Mankind has nothing to do with climate change. It is the Sun, stupid!
BTTT!
"The Great Tri-State Tornado of March 18, 1925, started its uninterrupted 219-mile trek from its origin in the Missouri Ozarks. At an average speed of between 56 and an astounding 73 miles per hour (more than twice the speed of an average tornado), the Great Tri-State Tornado tore across Missouri, southern Illinois, and finally lifted three and one-half hours later in southwestern Indiana. The wall of violent blackness killed [still a record] 695 people, injured 2,027 people, destroyed 15,000 homes, and damaged more than 164 square miles (almost 50 times the average tornado)."
Bangkok is having a terrible flood - much like any major city built on a swamp/floodplain can expect.
For another possible explanation for the wild weather, you may want to take a look at the work of a guy in MO who has this website: www.dutchsinse.com. His uploads and comments on freak weather worldwide and the reasons for it are really something. He’s predicting where some of these tornados and hail are going to be next based on radar patterns. Been following him for a couple of months now, and the weather info is fascinating, but his earthquake research is really what unnerves me. . .
What Nobel Prize did they win?
Must have been the Nobel Prize for Social Justice, it sure didn’t have anything to do with science.
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