Atmospheric Warming and the Amplification of Precipitation Extremes

Overview of attention for article published in Science, August 2008

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blogs: 3 blogs
policy: 15 policy sources

twitter: 1 X user
reddit: 5 Redditors

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[Atmospheric warming increases the water-holding capacity...

User solarish, in the Weather: we all love to talk about it! subreddit, 09 Aug 2025

[Atmospheric warming increases the water-holding capacity of the atmosphere](https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.111…

I don't think any scientists were calling it a 1000 year...

User DVDAallday, in the Climate Skeptics: Trying to see through the alarmism subreddit, 11 Oct 2015

I don't think any scientists were calling it a 1000 year flood. It was a 1000 year rainfall event. And extreme rainfall events…

> Climatologist No, you're someone on the...

User BlueRock, in the Environment subreddit, 09 Jun 2011

> Climatologist here. No, you're someone on the internet who *claims* to be a climatologist without providing a shred of…

isnt this the full text?...

User [deleted], in the Environment subreddit, 02 Feb 2011

isnt this the full text? http://www.sciencemag.org/content/321/5895/1481.full

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