March 28, 2012 | Burning fossil fuels has led to a warmer, moister atmosphere and a shifting background for extreme weather and climate events, according to a new study by NCAR scientist Kevin Trenberth. Published in the journal Climatic Change, the analysis puts a wide range of noteworthy weather events from the last two years in the context of a warming and moistening global climate.
March 1, 2012 | A new study in the journal Climatic Change finds that extremely warm summers are not only occurring more frequently in the contiguous United States, but are likely to become normal by mid-century if the world continues its business-as-usual rate of greenhouse gas emissions.
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