National Public Radio: Here is a link to some new work on climate change and extreme weather (flooding, etc.) detailed in Nature. The gist of the results can be gleaned from the abstracts:
Min et al
Here we show that human-induced increases in greenhouse gases have contributed to the observed intensification of heavy precipitation events found over approximately two-thirds of data-covered parts of Northern Hemisphere land areas.
From Pall et al
Here we present a multi-step, physically based 'probabilistic event......
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Posted by National Public Radio: Adam Frank on February 21st, 2011
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