To summarize, Hansen et al. showed that extreme heat events have become more common and more
intense as a result of global warming.
Hurricanes in some areas, including the North Atlantic, are likely to become more
intense as a result of global warming even though the number of such storms worldwide may decline, according to a new study by MIT researchers.
BUT the record shows us that extreme weather events have NOT become more frequent or intense as our planet has warmed, so there is pretty good evidence that these events do not become more frequent or
intense as a result of global warming.
Even IPCC is now conceding that there is no evidence that severe weather events have become more frequent or
intense as a result of global warming.
Not exact matches
Human health challenges
as a
result of global warming range from injuries after more
intense storms to toxic algal blooms
There has been an
intense rush to use Hurricane Sandy
as a teachable moment to focus the public (and politicians) on the risks
of an unabated buildup
of greenhouse gases and
resulting global warming.
But in the last few years, coffee yields have plummeted here and in many
of Latin America's other premier coffee regions
as a
result of rising temperatures and more
intense and unpredictable rains, phenomena that many scientists link partly to
global warming.
In both cases, the scientists have found evidence that the most
intense hurricanes are already occurring more often
as a
result of human - caused
global warming.
These two papers add to the growing body
of evidence that we are seeing more
intense hurricanes
as a
result of human - caused
global warming.
The fact is, is that NOAA, in the federal government, has shown that there is conclusive evidence that the tropical waters are getting
warmer as a
result of global warming and while that doesn't lead to more hurricanes, what it leads to is more
intense, and and hurricanes, hurricanes that are more
intense.
In the future, there may not necessarily be more hurricanes, but there will likely be more
intense hurricanes that carry higher wind speeds and more precipitation
as a
result of global warming.