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Rapid intensification of water cycle expected in the next few decades
Global warming may fuel more intense rain in parts of the world that already wet, and more drought in dry regions. PHOTO BY BOB BERWYN.
By Summit Voice
SUMMIT COUNTY — Even as global warming deniers toot their horns at the discredited Heartland Institute‘s annual anti-science conference, a team of researchers say they’ve detected a pattern of changes in ocean salinity that marks a clear “fingerprint of climate change.”
Analyzing observed ocean salinity changes and the relationship between salinity, rainfall and evaporation in climate models, they determined the water cycle has strengthened by four per cent from 1950-2000. This is twice the response projected by current generation global climate models, according to lead author, Dr. Paul Durack, a post-doctoral fellow at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. (more…)
Filed under: climate and weather, global warming | Tagged: climate change, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, global warming, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, ocean salinity, Water cycle | 1 Comment »
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