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ADVANCES IN CLIMATE SCIENCE
A few weeks ago, in our Franklin Press article about this year's heavy rainfall, we said it was impossible to tell whether any single extreme event was a result of climate change, though increased extremes are predicted for the future. Well, the science of extreme events is advancing. Dozens of scientists from 18 research teams recently reviewed extreme events in 2012 (droughts, floods, hurricanes, heat waves, ice melts, and more) and found "compelling evidence" that human-caused climate change had contributed to about half of these events. They also compared and refined their methodologies, which will hopefully make us better able to understand the causes -- and perhaps eventually predict or prepare for -- these types of extreme climate events. The full report is available through the American Meteorological Society.

Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 | National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Human influences are impacting some extreme events according to “Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective.”

Check out the new video podcasts on our web site, made by local schoolteachers as part of the summer Research Experiences for Teachers program!

http://listening.coweeta.uga.edu/podcasts

Podcasts | Coweeta Listening Project The Coweeta Listening Project is collecting videos from both Coweeta scientists and members of the community and making them available as watchable Podcasts. These Podcasts are organized by contributor and topic. Each group of podcasts will be available from the links below. Video Journals from the...