A report from the National Weather Service said that storms in Alaska were getting fewer, but the conditions were worse. Are we seeing different results than tropical areas?
A lot of people have an idea in their mind that climate change means a uniform change everywhere; if the temperature is rising, then it’s rising everywhere. However, changes do not happen the same everywhere. Alaska and the Yukon are really warming up, but there are some areas of the Arctic, even in the last 40 years, that haven’t changed at all. The same is true for storms. There are some areas where storms are worse, but there are other areas, maybe in the tropics, where they are not changing at all. I’m not sure of details of all tropical areas. There were a couple of research papers that came out not too long ago, that talked about the fact that tropical storms both in the Atlantic and Pacific were increasing in intensity. Another important thing to remember with climate change is that there is a lot of variability from one day to the next. For example, in 2004/05 there were a lot of hurricanes in the Southeast. However, this last year there were very few. A change in variability i
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