Climate change means more than mild winters: storms wreak extra havoc

Darkfrog submitted, created time 2 months 2 weeks (www.nature.com)

According to Nature, the maximum speeds of hurricanes and other intense storms have increased since 1981.

While atmospheric models have long suggested that an overall increase in planetary temperature will also increase the intensity of storms, it has also been argued that other results of increasing temperature, such as increased shearing winds, would cancel out or interfere with these other effects.

Climatologists at the University of Florida, however, have found that recent storms have been able to overcome the effects of shearing winds

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