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Warming Means Wetter Weather and Drier Weather
2013-03-10 16:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Welcome to the see-saw world of climate change. Rainy seasons will get rainier. Dry seasons will tend to become more parched. Even if the total annual rainfall does not change very much, the seasonal cycles will -- with obvious consequences. Floods and droughts will become more frequent, according to Chia Chou of the University of Taipei, and colleagues from Taiwan and California. Like all pronouncements about the future, this one comes with caveats: the research is based on climate simulations...
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Hotter, wetter climate slashes labor capacity by 10 percent: U.S. study
2013-02-24 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Earth's increasingly hot, wet climate has cut the amount of work people can do in the worst heat by about 10 percent in the past six decades, and that loss in labor capacity could double by mid-century, U.S. government scientists reported on Sunday. Because warmer air can hold more moisture than cooler air, there's more absolute humidity in the atmosphere now than there used to be. And as anyone who has sweltered through a hot, muggy summer knows, it's more stressful to work through hot months...
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