To: Wharf Rat who wrote (41674 ) 7/31/2013 5:04:54 PM From: Bilow Respond to Hi Rat; You're now having to argue with the journalists who once were your buddies. This is your side losing ground. You're experiencing what it's like to lose.including unprecedented heatwaves and droughts " is nonsense. As the world gets warmer, it gets wetter. This is because most of the planet's surface is covered with oceans. Warmer air means that more water evaporates from the oceans. This water eventually falls as rain.Our Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation has been acknowledged worldwide. It has found on the basis of evidence from observations gathered since 1950 of change in some extremes, that it is very likely there has been an overall decrease in the number of cold days and nights, and an overall increase in the number of warm days and nights, at the global scale, that is, for most land areas with sufficient data. There is medium confidence of a warming trend in daily temperature extremes in much of Asia. It is likely that there have been statistically significant increases in the number of heavy precipitation events (e.g., 95th percentile) in more regions than there have been statistically significant decreases, but there are strong regional and subregional variations in the trends. There is medium confidence that since the 1950s some regions of the world have experienced a trend to more intense and longer droughts, in particular in southern Europe and West Africa, but in some regions droughts have become less frequent, less intense, or shorter, for example, in central North America and northwestern Australia. ipcc.ch
