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China Confirms Their Warming is Human Caused
Posted by Climate News Network: Tim Radford on April 13th, 2013
Climate News Network: Chinese scientists have just confirmed that greenhouse gas emissions have sent the thermometer soaring in one country -- China.
This is, they say, the first study to directly link warmer daily minimum and maximum temperatures with climate change in one single nation, rather than on a global or hemispheric scale.
"Actually seeing a warming trend in a single location is hard', said Xuebin Zhang from Environment Canada in Toronto. "It's like trying to see the tide change when you're in a rowing...
Geoengineering could trigger disaster in parts of Africa
Posted by Climate News Network: Tim Radford on April 7th, 2013
Climate News Network: Less than three weeks after two U.S. researchers called for global agreement on the governance of geoengineering research, British meteorologists have provided a case study in potential geoengineering disaster.
Jim Haywood from the Met Office Hadley Center and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change that fine particles concentrated in the stratosphere could precipitate calamitous drought in the Sahel region of Africa.
Attempts to tackle climate change by altering the atmosphere may have...
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Comments Off on Geoengineering could trigger disaster in parts of AfricaWarming Means Wetter Weather – and Drier Weather
Posted by Climate News Network: Tim Radford on March 10th, 2013
Climate News Network: Welcome to the see-saw world of climate change. Rainy seasons will get rainier. Dry seasons will tend to become more parched. Even if the total annual rainfall does not change very much, the seasonal cycles will -- with obvious consequences. Floods and droughts will become more frequent, according to Chia Chou of the University of Taipei, and colleagues from Taiwan and California.
Like all pronouncements about the future, this one comes with caveats: the research is based on climate simulations...