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To: "globalchange" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 10:29 PM
Subject: [Global Change: 1392] Climate change impact on "extreme events"
>
> Is there any evidence to suggest that climate change will impact
> "extreme events" (extreme heat, cold, precipitation, storms)
> significantly worse than would be expected from an equivalent
> temperature change due to either distance from the equator or the
> season of the year?
Yes!
Just take hurricanes as an example. If they intensify/have intensified then
it is the areas where they presently exist that will suffer from more
frequent and more intense hudrricanes. They won't just move north/south.
HTH,
Cheers, Alastair.
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