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On today's wn Robin white looks at whether storms will increase in frequency as the world warms.

White: In June of 1988 a Senate hearing on global warming coincided with the worst drought since the 1930s. With temperatures soaring above a hundred outside the hearing, politicians became convinced that this was evidence of global warming and the next day newspapers trumpeted that global warmed had started. It was a good thing people got a wake up call about the greenhouse effect, but it was for the wrong reasons. Scientists say you can't attribute one single weather pattern to global warming. Phil Jones of the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia says it's not even the hottest temperatures that are rising with global warming anyway.

Jones: The greatest rise is in the minimum temperature so we're not getting a dramatic rise in areas with warmer temps but dramatically fewer areas that are extremely cold relative to their normal climate.

White: Scientists are also finding other oddities as the climate warms. It's not getting that much warmer in the daytime , but mostly at night.

Jones: also many areas are experiencing much milder winters they're not experiencing the very hot summers to any great degree to any more frequency than we currently have experienced them.

White: And just to polish it off, the temperatures are not rising equally all over the globe. The places warming fastest are Siberia and north west North America.