Chennai floods: Climate change footprints in freak weather
NEW DELHI: In 24 hours ending Wednesday, Chennai got almost twice the rain it normally receives in the entire month of December. This was just the sort of extreme weather event associated with global warming and the news of the deluge reverberated at the Paris climate summit. But can the record rain spell be linked to climate change?
The short answer appears to be 'yes' but the complex connections of the freak rain event with the changes being wrought by global warming need to be understood.
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