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Ten times more hurricane surges in future, new research predicts
2013-03-18 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: By examining the frequency of extreme storm surges in the past, previous research has shown that there was an increasing tendency for storm hurricane surges when the climate was warmer. But how much worse will it get as temperatures rise in the future? How many extreme storm surges like that from Hurricane Katrina, which hit the U.S. coast in 2005, will there be as a result of global warming? New research from the Niels Bohr Institute show that there will be a tenfold increase in frequency if the...
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