Global warming could shift tropical rainfall

Mongabay
By Jeremy HanceOct 21, 2013, 1:51 pm60 pts
Ongoing burning of fossil fuels could flip which portion of the tropics receive more rainfall: the southern hemisphere or the northern. Currently, the northern hemisphere tropics is the wetter of the two, but why this is has long baffled scientists. Now, new research in Nature Geoscience has discovered that…

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