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March 19, 2014

Climatologists offer explanation for widening of Earth's tropical belt
Riverside CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2014
Recent studies have shown that the Earth's tropical belt - demarcated, roughly, by the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn - has progressively expanded since at least the late 1970s. Several explanations for this widening have been proposed, such as radiative forcing due to greenhouse gas increase and stratospheric ozone depletion. Now, a team of climatologists, led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside, posits that the recent widening of the tropical belt is primarily caused by mu ... read more

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