Abrupt Global Warming Could Shift Monsoon Patterns, Hurt Agriculture

Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 16:21 in Earth & Climate

At times in the distant past, an abrupt change in climate has been associated with a shift of seasonal monsoons to the south, a new study concludes, causing more rain to fall over the oceans than in the Earth's tropical regions, and leading to a dramatic drop in global vegetation growth.

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