Circumstantial evidence points to climate change as worsening the deadly deluge that just flooded Dubai and other parts of the Persian Gulf, but scientists didn't discover the definitive fingerprints of greenhouse gas-triggered warming they have seen in other extreme weather events, a new report found.
It's what we expect from other studies that have been done in the area, from other studies around the world, and there's nothing else that's going on that could explain this increase.'There is a long-known effect in physics that finds the air holds 7% more moisture with every degree Celsius .Otto said she has confidence in the conclusion, but said this was one of the harder attribution studies the team has undertaken.