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Friday, September 1, 2017

Hurricane Harvey: The link to climate change

Hurricane Harvey: The link to climate change


When it comes to the causes of Hurricane Harvey, climate change is not a smoking gun.

However, there are a few spent cartridge cases marked global warming in the immediate vicinity.

Hurricanes are complex, naturally occurring beasts - extremely difficult to predict, with or without the backdrop of rising global temperatures.

The scientific reality of attributing a role to climate change in worsening the impact of hurricanes is also hard to tease out simply because these are fairly rare events and there is not a huge amount of historical data.


Full story at http://bbc.in/2gleTLw


Source: BBC News


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