Record-breaking heavy rainfall events increased under global warming

Record-breaking heavy rainfall events increased under global warming
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jul 09, 2015 - Heavy rainfall events setting ever new records have been increasing strikingly in the past thirty years. While before 1980, multi-decadal fluctuations in extreme rainfall events are explained by natural variability, a team of scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research detected a clear upward trend in the past few decades towards more unprecedented daily rainfall events. ... morehttp://www.terradaily.com/reports/Record_breaking_heavy_rainfall_events_increased_under_global_warming_999.html