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 Stories About: climate AND climate change impacts AND severe weather AND water conflicts AND water crisis
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Warming will worsen water wars
The magnitude of drought and floods will increase with climate change |
Joseph Romm |
24 Aug 2007 |
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| A very good article in the Washington Post lays out the problem we face. 'Global warming will intensify drought, and it will intensify floods,' explains Stephen Schneider, editor of the journal Climatic Change and a lead author for the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Why? As the air gets warmer, there will be more water in the atmosphere. That's settled science ... You are going to intensify the hydrologic cycle. Where the atmos ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, severe weather, water conflicts, water crisis (all these topics) |
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