UN Climate Chief Pachauri notes droughts are less frequent, less intense or shorter in Central North America

11/28/12, “STATEMENT OF DR. R. K. PACHAURI, CHAIRMAN, INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC) AT THE EIGHTEENTH CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES DOHA”

page 2, end of parag. 5:

“There is medium confidence that since the 1950‘s some regions of the world have experienced a trend to more intense and longer droughts, in particular in Southern Europe and West Africa,

but in some regions

droughts have become less frequent, less intense, or shorter, for example

in Central North America

and Western Australia.”…








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via Roger Pielke, Jr.