Originally published November 27 2005
Report says global warming will produce increasingly volatile weather
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
A new report from the National Center for Atmospheric Research predicts that the rise in global temperature will lead to storms of greater power and frequency in the next 100 years.
Rising temperatures in the world's atmosphere and oceans will lead to more intense storms as the century progresses, according to a new report from the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Evaporation increases when the surface temperature of the ocean rises and warmer air can hold more moisture.
Heavier rain or snow, however, will also fall in northwestern and northeastern North America, northern Europe, northern and eastern Asia, southwestern Australia, and parts of South America during the current century.
"The models show most areas around the world will experience more intense precipitation for a given storm during this century," lead author Gerald Meehl said in a statement.
"Information on which areas will be most affected could help communities to better manage water resources and anticipate possible flooding."
The Mediterranean and the southwestern U.S., meanwhile, will experience a different pattern.
A picture of how this pattern might develop was seen in Europe this year: While Germany endured unprecedented floods, Spain and Portugal imposed water rationing because of a lengthy drought.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in April released a report predicting that hurricanes would become more intense over the coming century.
The scientific community now generally agrees that global warming is in fact happening, and most of the future scenarios aren't pretty.
Rising sea levels could lead to more frequent flooding in Bangladesh and other low-lying nations.
While scientists generally agree that the world's climate is changing, there is more disagreement over how much of the change is due to human behavior.
"Probably most of the climate change in the early part of the century was caused by natural events," he said, such as a rebounding of temperatures that ordinarily occurs after volcanoes.
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