Showing posts with label flooding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flooding. Show all posts

Jul 23, 2007

Is it raining more than ever?


It's been raining, unusually hard, in several parts of the world--England, China, India, and parts of the U.S.--and, quite by coincidence, there is a paper coming in this Thursday's edition of the journal Nature, reporting that, "for the first time, climate scientists have clearly detected the human fingerprint on changing global precipitation patterns over the last century."

The abstract of the paper is HERE.

The full paper is not online without a subscription, but Nature does have a news piece of its own HERE.

A Kayaker Picture in "Thousands Evacuate in British Flooding"

Some 48,000 homes in Gloucestershire were flooded. But there is a picture of kayaker.



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