Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Global warming could fuel European hurricanes

Summit County: European climate scientists say global warming will drive a northeastward expansion of the tropical Atlantic hurricane breeding ground, with four times as many storms of tropical origins affecting parts of Western Europe in coming decades. In the Bay of Biscay, the number of storms with tropical-storm-force winds could increase from 2 to 13 by the end of the century, said researcher Reindert Haarsma. The initial results suggest that the impacts may not be as great in the low-lying Netherlands...

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