Humans to blame for global changes in rain: study

[jpak]

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN2334800320070723

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Human activities that spur global warming are largely to blame for changes in rainfall patterns over the last century, climate researchers reported on Monday.

The report was released as record rains caused deadly flooding in Britain and China.

Human-caused climate change has been responsible for higher air temperatures and hotter seas and is widely expected to lead to more droughts, wildfires and floods, but the authors say this is the first study to specifically link it to precipitation changes.

"For the first time, climate scientists have clearly detected the human fingerprint on changing global precipitation patterns over the past century," researchers from Environment Canada said in a statement.

The scientists, writing in the journal Nature, found humans contributed significantly to these changes, which include more rain and snow in northern regions that include Canada, Russia and Europe, drier conditions in the northern tropics and more rainfall in the southern tropics.

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[Ezlivin]

1. Which humans? Name them!

And what about Mars? Didn't the weather patterns change there? Didn't NASA just say that rain was holding up one of the rovers?

Don't forget about the sun getting hotter. It has been getting hotter ever since winter. Go outside. See?

:sarcasm:

[Ian David]

2. According to Zogby, it's the Republicks

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[Turbineguy]

3. Wrong!

I saw it on Hannity the other day. The weather sensors were placed near air conditioner outlets and giving false high signals. The sensors are also being placed near sewage treatment plants, that's why the air smells. There is no global warming. Fox news wouldn't lie about a thing like that (would they?)