How We Know It Was Climate Change
How We Know It Was Climate Change
Fri December 29th, 2017
Noah S. Diffenbaugh | New York Times Sunday Review
Noah S. Diffenbaugh writes in the New York Times Sunday Review about examining connections between climate change and extreme weather events. He sites a new paper from Kerry Emanuel showing that since climate change can increase moisture in the atmosphere, a given storm can produce more precipitation, and heavy rainfall during storms like Hurricane Harvey are more likely.
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