Climate data gives mixed message on storm forecasts - Climate News Network
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By Tim Radford
New research suggests that climate change won’t after all lead to more storms − but the bad ones could be even more devastating.
LONDON, 8 February, 2015 − Keep calm and hold on to your hat. The atmosphere will not become increasingly stormy as the planet warms and the climate changes.
The downside is that while the number of storms will probably remain unchanged, and weak storms could even become weaker, new research warns that the strongest storms could become significantly stronger.
For at least three decades, researchers have worked on the assumption that as the average energy of the atmosphere increased with warming, so would the potential for extremes of heat and drought, flood and cyclone, typhoon or hurricane.