Increased flood risk linked to global warming : Nature News
2011 February 21
This focuses on the intensity of rain storms and blizzards, analyzing a half century's-worth of rain gauge data from 6,000 reporting stations run through a variety of climate models.
Notably, the research doesn't include data after 1999, which is when a significant number of recording stations were shut down. Yet even when the "best science available" isn't as good as it might have been, it appears, at least in this case, to have been good enough to raise some major concerns.
Still, one wonders whether the missing data could have helped predict this winter's record snows in Korea, the string of Nor'easters in New England, or the recent megafloods in Germany and Pakistan. And if data from the Southern hemisphere had been included, would we have seen a pattern leading to the catastrophic storms in Australia and Sri Lanka?
(thanks Janet)
Notably, the research doesn't include data after 1999, which is when a significant number of recording stations were shut down. Yet even when the "best science available" isn't as good as it might have been, it appears, at least in this case, to have been good enough to raise some major concerns.
Still, one wonders whether the missing data could have helped predict this winter's record snows in Korea, the string of Nor'easters in New England, or the recent megafloods in Germany and Pakistan. And if data from the Southern hemisphere had been included, would we have seen a pattern leading to the catastrophic storms in Australia and Sri Lanka?
(thanks Janet)
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