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Looks like 2010 is an outlier compared to previous years if you accept the accuracy of the figures.  This year has been exceptionally windy to date and global warming is predicted to increase wind - bet REF don't factor that in!

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Thu Jun 23rd, 2011 at 11:00:51 AM EST
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Will global warming increase usable wind, or will it increase storms - hurricanes and tornadoes, or will it do both?
 

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by edwin (eeeeeeee222222rrrrreeeeeaaaaadddddd@@@@yyyyaaaaaaa) on Thu Jun 23rd, 2011 at 12:45:58 PM EST
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Short Answer: nobody knows.

Meso-climate processes, such as El Nino, will obliterate GW affects, increase GW affects, or have no affect on local weather.

'bout the only safe prediction:

Climate is what you expect.  Weather is what you get.

:-)


She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Thu Jun 23rd, 2011 at 01:15:38 PM EST
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I suspect it will be different in different parts of the world - Ireland tends not to get Hurricanes and Tornadoes, although we tend to get the the storms to which Hurricanes reduce once they cross the Atlantic - with wind speeds up to c. 100 - 150kph although the latter end is a once in a decade event and the absolute sea level record is a gust of 200KPH in 1974.

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Thu Jun 23rd, 2011 at 01:24:32 PM EST
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Generally known Emergent Properties are an outlier compared to historic data.  What is not generally known is the data gathered in a system with Emergent Properties can be identical with historic data.

This is a real pain when you're trying to Model what's going on.


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by ATinNM on Thu Jun 23rd, 2011 at 01:24:10 PM EST
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