Saturday, November 19, 2011

Get ready for more unprecedented extreme weather

http://news.yahoo.com/science-panel-ready-extreme-weather-104156773.html
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The panel said the world needs to get ready for more dangerous and "unprecedented extreme weather" caused by global warming. These experts fear that without preparedness, crazy weather extremes may overwhelm some locations, making some places unlivable.
The Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a special report on global warming and extreme weather Friday after meeting in Kampala, Uganda. This is the first time the group of scientists has focused on the dangers of extreme weather events such as heat waves, floods, droughts and storms. Those are more dangerous than gradual increases in the world's average temperature. end quote.

I have often written about what I see coming as an intuitive in my blogs since about 1999. However, usually I wrote about the extreme winds above 100 mph which can lift any walking person and throw them if they are not tied or tethered to a rope to a solid object or something as being the biggest problem I foresaw. But within the last year added to that it is not just winds but extreme weather of all kinds that might not be predicted by any weather reports like often tornadoes and other potentially fatal events often are worldwide. Though in the past I thought that to escape heavy winds people should prepare by moving away from flat areas that allow winds to gather speed to say mountains, for example. However, now I believe that the best refuge likely will be larger well constructed buildings as well as underground structures built into berms of earth or under the earth or into the sides of mountains or cliffs. However, it is important to note that  in storms over 100 mph often some or all of the windows of above ground buildings will be blown out and it is important to prepare for that possibility once high winds begin.

The recent fire in Reno that damaged at least 20 to 25 homes is an example of such an unexpected event that could not be predicted because of extremely high winds that people said were blowing them down and off their feet and almost blowing over semi trucks in that area.

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