California also worries about extreme storms after Sandy

LiveScience: In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, researchers in California are grappling with their own questions about increasingly extreme weather. The Pacific Ocean isn't warm enough to produce a superstorm like Sandy on the West Coast, researchers say, but climate change could give rise to more frequent severe storms in the region. "We can see very big storms, and there are a couple of issues related to climate change to think about," said Roger Bales, director of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI)...

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