Cutting carbon dioxide could help prevent droughts, new research shows

Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 18:30 in Earth & Climate

Recent climate modeling has shown that reducing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would give the Earth a wetter climate in the short term. New research offers a novel explanation for why climates are wetter when atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are decreasing. Their findings show that cutting carbon dioxide concentrations could help prevent droughts caused by global warming.

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