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August Research Roundup: Select Papers
This month, we covered a long-term analysis suggesting that landfill methane emissions may be far higher than estimated, as well as new research on unexpected trends in U.S. extreme rainfall. Here are additional studies worth noting.
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Not true. Evaporated water eventually comes down to earth. The evaporation and subsequent downpour of water will just come in…
you’re saying increased incidence of drought in the west and increased incidence of hurricanes in the east and southeast?
Media Highlights
- By Michael Gerrard.
- A separate analysis of nearly 8,000 weather stations worldwide, published by researchers including Colin Raymond and Radley Horton in Science Advances , found that a handful of locations have already briefly touched the old 35-degree […]
- “If it transitions into La Niña by next summer,” says Mingfang Ting, a professor at the Columbia Climate School, it could bring more precipitation to the region….
Based on what I have read there is a discrepancy in dating and order of operations. As an extreme case…