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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

EARTH OBSERVATION Climate-addled jet streams boost drought, flood: study

EARTH OBSERVATION
Climate-addled jet streams boost drought, flood: study Paris (AFP) March 27, 2017 - Global warming amplifies severe droughts and floods by disrupting jet streams, the powerful high-altitude air currents that move west-to-east across the northern hemisphere, researchers said Monday. Just in the last 15 years, devastating drought in California, heat waves across the United States and western Europe, deadly flooding in Pakistan - all were made worse when manmade climate chang ... morehttp://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Climate-addled_jet_streams_boost_drought_flood_study_999.html

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