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How climate change will make atmospheric rivers even worse
Researchers estimate that atmospheric rivers in the western U.S. will become 15 percent larger in size and last six hours longer for every one degree Celsius spike in global temperatures.
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State of Play
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.