Hurricane Sandy is in the house. It's no coincidence that one of the most powerful storms is happening on the heels of climate change. Watch the embedded video here. This is from the 2007 IPCC AR-4 Report:
"Results from embedded high-resolution models and global models, ranging in
grid spacing from 100 km to 9 km, project a likely
increase of peak wind intensities and notably, where analysed, increased
near-storm precipitation in future tropical cyclones. Most recent published
modelling studies investigating tropical storm frequency simulate a decrease in
the overall number of storms, though there is less confidence in these
projections and in the projected decrease of relatively weak storms in most
basins, with an increase in the numbers of the most intense tropical cyclones."
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