Recently the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report that top scientists predict more extreme weather patterns in the future. In the final pages of the report, scientists claim that there is a 2-in-3 probability that extremes within the climate have already intensified due to an increase in man-made greenhouse gases. Single-day rainstorms that in the past have occurred approximately every twenty years, may now occur at a rate of twice a decade. With drying and warming conditions, increase in droughts is a definite possibility as well.
Scientists claim an event like the flooding in Thailand can also be viewed as a way to depict how closely related climate is to other things such as overpopulation, urban development and river management. An interesting time to report on the effects of overpopulation, as we reached seven billion people as of Halloween.
This story was found at: http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/story/2011-11-01/climate-weather-extremes/51031618/1
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