Heavy rains just one sign of shifting climate in New Hampshire - The Laconia Daily Sun
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The Lakes Region was unlucky to get a taste of the heavy rains that have battered Vermont and the northwestern portions of the Granite State on July 16. In Alton, a chunk of Route 140 was destroyed by a storm washout. The next day, as crews went to work to clear the debris, Julie White and her vacationing family strolled by the devastation. They had driven over that patch of highway just 30 minutes before its destruction. During an interview with The Sun, White called the destruction “a once-in-a-lifetime event.”
That couldn’t be further from the truth, according to climate scientists.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.