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Regional Rainfall Decline in Australia Attributed to Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases and Ozone Levels

Published:July 2014

Author(s):Thomas L. Delworth, Fanrong Zeng

Publisher:Nature Geoscience

This study analyzes the decline in precipitation in southern Australia in the past few decades using a global climate model, demonstrating that the decline is in response to anthropogenic changes in atmospheric greenhouse gas and ozone levels.Read More →

The Absence of a Role of Climate Change in the 2011 Thailand Floods

Published:July 2012

Author(s):Thomas C. Peterson, Peter A. Stott, Stephanie Herring

Publisher:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Using a variety of methodologies, six extreme events of the previous year are explained from a climate perspective.Read More →

Chinese Drought, Bread and the Arab Spring

Published:May 2012

Author(s):Troy Sternberg

Publisher:Applied Geography

Potential crop failure due to drought led China to buy wheat on the international market and contributed to a doubling of global wheat prices, resulting in price spikes with economic impacts in Egypt, where bread prices tripled. Read More →

A Decade of Weather Extremes

Published:March 2012

Author(s):Dim Coumou, Stefan Rahmstorf

Publisher:Nature Climate Change

This article reviews the evidence and argue that for some types of extreme--notably heatwaves, but also precipitation extremes--there is now strong evidence linking specific events or an increase in their numbers to the human influence on climate.Read More →

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Regional Rainfall Decline in Australia Attributed to Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases and Ozone Levels

The Absence of a Role of Climate Change in the 2011 Thailand Floods

Chinese Drought, Bread and the Arab Spring

A Decade of Weather Extremes