Australia drought = Antarctic snow

New Scientist reports that Australia's drought could be caused by the rainfall moving south to Antarctica.

Tas van Ommen and Vin Morgan of the Australian Antarctic Division studied snowfall records in ice cores from East Antarctica's Law Dome. They found that in the last few decades, its snowfall rates far exceeded anything in the past 750 years. The timing matches the Australian drought.

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