The Yin and Yang of Climate Extremes

Inter Press Service: The floods that affected 20 million people in Pakistan and the devastating six- week heat wave in Russia in recent months are tragic climate events -- and they're closely linked. "The Pakistan floods and Russia heat wave were directly connected, the atmospheric science makes that clear," Kevin Trenberth, senior scientist at the U.S. National Centre for Atmospheric Research, told Tierramérica. A long-lasting high pressure system called a "blocking high" essentially gave western ......

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