Nearly any time a major natural disaster strikes — an earthquake in Japan, an eruption in Chile — someone tries to link it to climate change.
Usually such claims are bunk. But McGuire, a geologist at University College London, shows that there can be an underlying grain of truth. What happens in the atmosphere, it turns out, doesn’t stay in the atmosphere. Climate change can in fact affect the solid Earth and its natural hazards.
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