Climate Central: Extreme weather events, such as the heat waves that have broiled the High Plains and Midwest this summer, smashing thousands of temperature records, are a direct consequence of global warming, according to a new study led by prominent climate scientist, James Hansen of NASA. The study seeks to reframe how people view the links between manmade global warming and extreme weather events, going farther than ever before in making direct ties between the two. The study by Hansen, who first warned of...
URL: http://www.climatecentral.org/news/hansen-study-extreme-weather-tied-to-climate-change-14760//
Enclosure: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/07/30/1205276109
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