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Climate change to cause more extreme weather mongabay.com October 19, 2006 Climate change will cause extreme weather to be a more common occurrence according to new computer modeling by researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Texas Tech University, and Australia's Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre. "It's the extremes, not the averages, that cause the most damage to society and to many ecosystems," said NCAR scientist Claudia Tebaldi, lead author for the report. "We now have the first model-based consensus on how the risk of dangerous heat waves, intense rains, and other kinds of extreme weather will change in the next century."
In a news release from NCAR, the authors note that because "most of these trends are significantly weaker for the lowest-emission scenario than for the moderate and high-emission scenarios... lowering the output of greenhouse gases over the next century should reduce the risk that the most severe changes will occur." This article in based on a news release from NCAR
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