Study: Man-made extreme weather has hit all over the world

A new study finds most people on

Earth have already felt extreme and record heat, drought or

downpours goosed by man-made global warming.

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers looked at

weather stations worldwide and calculated that in 85 percent

of the cases, the record for hottest day of the year had the

fingerprints of climate change.

Heat-trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels made

those records more likely or more intense.

Climate change's influence was spotted 57 percent of the time

in records for lowest rainfall in a year and 41 percent of the

time in records for most five-day downpours.

The study is in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of

Sciences.

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