Extreme ‘whiplash’ between drought and floods makes it harder to recover from climate disasters
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Extreme ‘whiplash’ between drought and floods makes it harder to recover from climate disasters
Parts of northern Texas, mired in a drought labeled as extreme and exceptional, are flooding under torrential rain. In a drought.
Sound familiar? It should. The Dallas region is just the latest drought-suffering-but-flooded locale during a summer of extreme weather whiplash, likely goosed by human-caused climate change, scientists say. Parts of the world are lurching from drought to deluge.
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