Climate experts: Expect more weather disasters

[TomCADem]

Source: CBS News

WASHINGTON - 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.

This marks a change in climate science from focusing on subtle changes
in daily average temperatures to concentrating on the
harder-to-analyze freak events that grab headlines, cause economic
damage and kill people. The most recent bizarre weather extreme, the
pre-Halloween snowstorm in the U.S., is typical of the damage climate
scientists warn will occur — but it's not typical of the events they
tie to global warming.


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-20128315/climate-experts-expect-more-weather-disasters/

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Oh oh. Expect Congressional Republicans to begin a fresh round of witch hunts directed at climate scientists along with Republican Presidential candidates angrily denouncing climate science.

[NBachers]

1. Wait 'till the Gulf Stream slows down or stops

[newfie11]

2. then we are truly fucked

and we don't have a convenient planet to run to.