Extreme Weather

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Extreme weather will become more common, experts forecast. It has been a summer of extremes. Rains have deluged Europe and Asia, swamping cities and villages and killing about 2000 people, wihile droght and heat have seared the American Western and Eastern cities. What is going on? The floors and droughts could simply be flickers in the inherently chaotic weather system, some experts say. But many warm that such extremes will be increasingly common as the world grows warmer. Such a shift could pose big problems in places where water is already a strained resource, they say. A warmer world is more likely to be a wetter one, experts warn, with more evaporation resluting in more rains, in more heavy and destructive downpours.