Mother Jones
This story first appeared on the Guardian website and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Half of last year’s extreme weather—including the triple-digit temperatures of America’s July heat wave—were due in part to climate change, new research said on Thursday.
The study, edited by scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the UK Met Office, detected the fingerprints of climate change on about half of the 12 most extreme weather events of 2012.
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