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Recent heavy rains in Texas and the deadly heat wave in India are 1.________ (sign) that climate change is most likely to contribute 2.________ extreme weather events. “There are so many additional greenhouse gases in the atmosphere today 3.________ our climate we know for sure 4.________ (affect) by them，” says Jim White, director of CUBoulder's Institute of Arctic and AlpineResearch. “The heat wave in India is quite consistent with 5.________ we expect to see in the future.”
According to Swiss researchers, extreme weather events worldwide are increasing with regularity, 6.________ (indicate) that they are becoming part of the Earth's overall climate pattern. White says, it's one thing to know that these extreme weather events 7.________ (happen) in the future, but to know the exact time and place is something that seems quite 8.________ (possible).
“Since the atmosphere just holds more moisture(水蒸气), we can generally say that more rain in a warmer world is expected. That's not 9.________ (terrible) comforting—if it's raining out over the ocean, that doesn't do 10.________ (we) any good. What we do think is going to happen is that as the atmosphere warms up we'll get more rain per event.”
