Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Two independent studies suggest greenhouse gas emissions are linked to more frequent heavy rainfall.
The studies, which appear today in the journal Nature, highlight the impact humans are having on extreme weather events, and come less than a month after a set of major flooding events around the world.
In one of the studies, scientists from the University of Victoria in Canada and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, looked at rainfall totals collected between 1951 and 1999 from 6000 rain......
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Study links extreme weather to climate change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 17th, 2011
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