2010 WORLD WIDE WEATHER EXTREMES

Factbox: 2010 hit by weather extremes: Pakistan to Russia Wed Jan 12 22:26:45 UTC 2011

(Reuters) - Last year, in which extreme weather caused devastating floods in Pakistan and China and a heatwave in Russia, tied as the warmest year since records began, a U.S. government agency said on Wednesday. The U.N. panel of climate change experts says that weather is likely to be more extreme in the 21st century because of a build-up of heat-trapping gases from human use of fossil fuels.Last year tied with 2005 as the warmest since global surface records began in 1880, according to the National Climatic Data Center, an office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). ....To read the article and more about Australian and world wide examples of extreme weather in 2010 click here.