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Warming strengthens typhoons that batter Asian coast
2016-09-05 17:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Batten down the hatches. Typhoons pummelling the coastlines of east and South-East Asia have become more destructive in the past 40 years, and are likely to intensify further because of climate change. The region has recently suffered some of the world's most devastating typhoons, including Haiyan, which killed 6340 people in 2013, and Morakot which killed 789 in 2009, both in the Philippines. A new study reveals that, on average, typhoons hitting the region have increased in intensity by 14...
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Asian typhoons becoming more intense, study finds
2016-09-05 17:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The destructive power of the typhoons that wreak havoc across China, Japan, Korea and the Philippines has intensified by 50% in the past 40 years due to warming seas, a new study has found. The researchers warn that global warming will lead the giant storms to become even stronger in the future, threatening the large and growing coastal populations of those nations. It is a very, very substantial increase, said Prof Wei Mei, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who led the...
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21 hurricanes and typhoons that shattered records in 2015
2015-10-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Since this story was posted, yet another storm -- Hurricane Patricia -- in the eastern Pacific intensified to Category 4 status, making it 22 Category 4 and 5 storms that have formed so far this year. The combination of El Nio, other natural climate cycles and global warming have supercharged this year's tropical cyclone season in the northern hemisphere to the point where all-time records have been blown away. Specifically, there have now been 21 typhoons and hurricanes in the hemisphere...
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HMS Defender and Eurofighter Typhoons train to hone air-maritime skills
2015-06-30 01:00:00| Naval Technology
The UK Royal Navy's Type 45 Daring-class air-defence destroyer HMS Defender and Eurofighter Typhoons from the RAF's II (AC) Squadron have undergone joint training to enhance air-maritime skills.
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Super typhoons to increase in strength with climate change, researchers find
2015-06-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: A warming planet is already stoking the intensity of tropical cyclones in the north-west Pacific and their ferocity will continue to increase even with moderate climate change over this century, an international research team has found. A study covering 850 typhoons in the region found the intensity of the damaging storms has increased by about 10 per cent since the 1970s, said Wei Mei, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and...
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