Warming’s role in extreme weather quantified
Human-driven climate change increases likelihood of heat spikes, heavy downpours
![dried up swimming hole in Australia](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/bm_climatechange_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
WARMING WORLD Extremely hot weather — like the drought that dried up this swimming hole in Australia — and pounding rainfall are on the rise thanks in large part to human-caused climate change.
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