Humans 'affect global rainfall'
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Human-induced climate change has affected global rainfall patterns over the 20th Century, a study suggests.
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Extreme rains, interspersed with droughts, could spell disaster for the country's agriculture-based economy, according to research spanning five decades of data.
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Assessing the effects of too much sun and heat, and too little moisture.
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Global warming caused by human activity has more than doubled the risk of summers as hot as in 2003, when thousands of people in Europe died of heat-related causes, according to a UK study published in the journal Nature.
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Human activity has at least doubled the risk of heat waves like the one in 2003 that killed thousands in Europe, researchers conclude in a study being published today in the scientific journal Nature.
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Pollution from Asia is causing more intense storms that may be affecting worldwide temperatures and contributing to polar warming, a new study finds.
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Earth sits between two worlds that have been devastated by climate catastrophes.
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People encounter rain and snow every day, and scientists have studied precipitation for centuries, yet it's amazing how much we still don't know about water that falls from the sky.
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U.S. scientists say they've determined rain evaporation and continental convection play an important part in the tropical water cycle.
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UN findings name human activity as 'very likely' cause of 'unequivocal' climate change.
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A Bush administration report suggests that evidence of global warming has begun to affect animal and plant populations in visible ways, and that rising temperatures in North America are due in part to human activity.
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More rains are on the way across Africa - and already more than a million people across a swathe of 17 countries already suffering the effects of severe floods.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 2--It's even more predictable than the weather. Plenty of people,  when they hear that an international panel of scientists is saying today that  it's "very likely" human activity is causing global warming, will point to  Thursday's winter storm.
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Global warming is set to continue, and bring with it an increase in extreme weather such as hurricanes and droughts, scientists from the United Nations&#39; World Meteorological Organization warned on Wednesday.
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The continent has been ravaged by months of rain. Is it paying for the sins of rich countries?
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By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON - The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say next month at a meeting in Belgium.
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People have lived with rain and snow for millennia, and scientists have studied weather for more than a century. You might think that, after all that time, we would have precipitation pretty much figured out.