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Scientists Have Figured Out Which Natural Disasters We Can Blame on Climate Change
2015-11-05 17:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Republic: Climate scientists are pretty good at figuring out the causes of long-term trends. We know that dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere will make global temperatures rise over time. But pinning down the cause of any single weather event--a specific heat wave, hurricane, or drought--is much more challenging, since extreme things could still happen without global warming. That's why scientists are so reluctant to say that any particular event happened "because of" climate change. Nevertheless,...
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