APNewsbreak: Future holds more extreme weather

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Nov. 1, 2011 3:04 PM ET

APNewsbreak: Future holds more extreme weather

SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — For a world already weary of weather catastrophes, the latest warning from top climate scientists paints a grim future: More floods, more heat waves, more droughts and greater costs to deal with them.

A draft summary of an international scientific report obtained by The Associated Press says the extremes caused by global warming could eventually grow so severe that some locations become "increasingly marginal as places to live."

The report from the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change marks a change in climate science, from focusing on subtle shifts in average temperatures to concentrating on the harder-to-analyze freak events that grab headlines, hurt economies and kill people.

"The extremes are a really noticeable aspect of climate change," said Jerry Meehl, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. "I think people realize that the extremes are where we are going to see a lot of the impacts of climate change."

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1. so there was no extreme weather in the past 2 million years? gosh I didn't know that nt

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2. Sure, there has always been extreme weather, but it’s becoming more common

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By the end of the century, the intense, single-day rainstorms that typically happen once every 20 years will probably happen about twice a decade, the report said.

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3. Oh goody! Extreme weather and finding only temp work

sounds likea great future to me.