Supertyphoons To Strike Japan DueTo Global Warming

Supertyphoon Sepat bears down on the Philippines in the Pacific Ocean on August 15, 2007. Increasingly powerful storms will devastate countries in the western Pacific Ocean, including Japan, as rising temperatures add fuel to storms, scientists said in September 2009. Photograph by NOAA/AP

From National Geographic:

Increasingly powerful "supertyphoons" will strike Japan if global warming continues to affect weather patterns in the western Pacific Ocean, scientists say.

Supercomputer simulations show there will be more typhoons with winds of 179 miles (288 kilometers) per hour—considered an F3 on the five-level Fujita Scale—by 2074.

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