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Greenhouse gases responsible for increases in heavy precipitation

May 27, 2020 Alvin Stone (ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes)

It has been estimated that as the Earth warms the atmosphere will be able to hold around 7% more moisture for each degree of global warming. As a result, it is expected extreme precipitation events will vary in […]

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Extreme El Nino events to double in number even with 1.5-degree warming: study

July 25, 2017 Peter Hannam (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment

Extreme El Nino events will more than double in frequency, even with the most ambitious goals to curtail global warming, exposing large regions to severe droughts and placing coral reefs in peril, a team of scientists including Australians […]

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Why the climate is more sensitive to carbon dioxide than weather records suggest

July 18, 2017 Andrew Glikson, Australian National University Leave a comment

One of the key questions about climate change is the strength of the greenhouse effect. In scientific terms this is described as “climate sensitivity”. It’s defined as the amount Earth’s average temperature will ultimately rise in response to […]

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