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April 27, 2012

Study: Global Warming Speeding Evaporation of 
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A new study has found climate change is dramatically accelerating the
evaporation and rainfall of water over oceans, raising fresh concerns
about the effect of climate change on extreme weather. Scientists in the
United States and Australia measured changing salt levels in the ocean
over the past 50 years and concluded that the water cycle over the
oceans has intensified by about 4 percent as the world has been getting
warmer.

 

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