More Severe Storms in 2009 and Beyond?

What if we think about these two items together?

NASA Study Links Severe Storm Increases and Global Warming

UK Met Office Forecasts 2009 to be One of Top 5 Warmest Years on Record Despite Cool Pacific

"The 2009 forecast includes an updated decadal forecast using a Met Office climate model. This indicates a rapid return of global temperature to the long-term warming trend, with an increasing probability of record temperatures after 2009" [bolding added].

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h/t Green Car Congress

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2008 Natural Catastrophes Show That Climate Change Has Already Started - Munich Re

"Munich Re, one of the world’s largest re-insurers, has released its annual figures on worldwide losses from natural catastrophes, and has termed 2008 'one of the most devastating years on record,' partly due to the large number of tropical cyclones..."

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