Dr. Jonathan Overpeck, director of the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth at the University of Arizona, and recipient of the shared 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his role as a Coordinating Lead Author for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment, will address the trend of droughts in the west and the vulnerability of coastal communities as they face sea level rise coupled with increasing storm intensities. (realclimate.org)
Although that experiment suggested anomalous temperatures could have possibly increased storm intensity slightly, forecasting intensity is still fraught with problems due to the complex contributions from many other variables. (landscapesandcycles.net)
Warmer waters increase storm intensity / precipitation and create coral bleaching, thus destroys the world's coral reef's, a ocean ecosystem «the rainforest of the ocean» and contains major food web's. (climatestate.com)