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Climate data since Vikings cast doubt on more wet, dry extremes
2016-04-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: OSLO Climate records back to Viking times show the 20th century was unexceptional for rainfall and droughts despite assumptions that global warming would trigger more wet and dry extremes, a study showed on Wednesday. Stretching back 1,200 years, written accounts of climate and data from tree rings, ice cores and marine sediments in the northern hemisphere indicated that variations in the extremes in the 20th century were less than in some past centuries. "Several other centuries show stronger...
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