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Looking, Quickly, for the Fingerprints of Climate Change
2016-08-02 00:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: When days of heavy rain in late May caused deadly river flooding in France and Germany, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh got to work. Dr. van Oldenborgh is not an emergency responder or a disaster manager, but a climate researcher with the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute. With several colleagues around the world, he took on the task of answering a question about the floods, one that arises these days whenever extreme weather occurs: Is climate change to blame? For years, most meteorologists...
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