Reuters: The number of extreme rainstorms - deluges that dump 3 inches or more in a day - doubled in the U.S. Midwest over the last half-century, causing billions of dollars in flood damage in a trend climate advocates link to a rise in greenhouse gas emissions. Across the Midwest the biggest storms increased by 103 percent from 1961 through 2011, a study released by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural Resources Defense Council reported on Wednesday. States in the upper Midwest fared...
URL: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-climate-rainmidwestl1e8gglzd-20120516,0,271408.story
Enclosure: http://rockymountainclimate.org/reports_3.htm
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