I noted that global warming enhanced both extremes of the water cycle, meaning stronger droughts and forest fires, on the one hand, but also heavier rains and floods. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
These coral proxies — drilled out of still - living reefs as well as those that had been uplifted by earthquakes in the Mentawai Islands of western Indonesia — closely matched more recent historical measures, noting strong droughts in 1961, 1994 and 1997. (scientificamerican.com)
This means that the science of climate change may partially undergo a shift of its own, moving from trying to prove it is a problem (it is now «very likely» that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have already caused enough warming to trigger stronger droughts, heat waves, more and bigger forest fires and more extreme storms and flooding) to figuring out ways to fix it. (scientificamerican.com)