Wired News: The drought that`s turned most of the United States into a dessicated hotbox may be a symptom of climate change, a brutal blowback from carbon pollution. Climate scientists, who prefer to speak in terms of probabilities and trends rather than single events, are reluctant to point fingers at any one cause - but signs point to human influence making a natural dry spell unnaturally severe. "In any single event, it`s hard to really know if you`re just seeing a natural variation or climate change,"...
URL: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/climate-change-drought/
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