NEWS FLASH

Greenhouse Pollution Is Driving Our Weather Crazy, Scientists Find | The first climate study to focus on variations in daily weather conditions has found that day-to-day weather has grown increasingly erratic and extreme, with significant fluctuations in sunshine and rainfall affecting more than a third of the planet. Princeton University researchers recently reported in the Journal of Climate that extremely sunny or cloudy days are more common than in the early 1980s and that swings from thunderstorms to dry days rose considerably since the late 1990s. Although the most extreme weather variations in the study were observed in the tropics, spurts of extreme weather are global in reach.