The Greenhouse Is Making the Water-Poor Even Poorer
How bad will global warming get? The question
has long been cast in terms of how hot
the world will get. But perhaps more important
to the planet’s inhabitants will be how
much rising greenhouse gases crank up the
water cycle. Theory and models predict that
a strengthening greenhouse will increase
precipitation where it is already relatively
high—tropical rain forests, for example—
and decrease it where it is already low, as in
the subtropics.
SCIENCE VOL 336 27 APRIL 2012
Publication Date: 2012
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