Grey swans are extremely rare, damaging storms. How will climate change affect them?

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By Andrea ThompsonSep 2, 2015, 2:14 pm55 pts
Black swans are catastrophic events that no one sees coming, while “grey swans,” as they are known, are extreme events for which there’s no historical precedent, but that could still potentially be predicted. A new study takes this concept into the realm of weather and climate, finding that global warming…

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