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Rainfall changes linked to human activity

Greenhouse-gas emissions have made the Northern Hemisphere wetter.

Human activity has made the weather wetter in a large slice of the Northern Hemisphere, say researchers. It has also made the regions just south of the Equator wetter, and those just north of it drier.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on July 23, 2007 05:19 PM |

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An increase of 62 mm per century on the northern hemisphere to mee seems rather trivial. I am living in the Netherlands with an average rainfall of 800 mm per year or 80,000 mm per century. The increase would be 0.08 percent, i.e. less than one mm per year. Why worry?

Posted by: Wim | July 26, 2007 11:02 AM

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