Saturday, August 18, 2012

Climate models that predict more droughts win further scientific support

Washington Post: The United States will suffer a series of severe droughts in the next two decades, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Moreover, global warming will play an increasingly important role in their abundance and severity, claims Aiguo Dai, the study's author. His findings bolster conclusions from climate models used by researchers around the globe that have predicted severe and widespread droughts in coming decades over many land areas. Those models had been questioned...

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/climate-models-that-predict-more-droughts-win-further-scientific-support/2012/04/05/gJQAvlIesX_story.html?wprss=rss_national
Enclosure: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1633.html

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