Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Watch Out For Weather Extremes

For a world already weary of weather catastrophes, the latest warning from top climate scientists paints a grim future: More floods, more heat waves, more droughts and greater costs to deal with them. A draft of an international scientific report says the extremes caused by global warming could eventually grow so severe that some locations become “increasingly marginal as places to live.” The report is from the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.