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Climate predictions may be wrong, new study finds

Predictions that climate change will result in wet regions getting wetter and dry areas drier in the future may be wrong, a new study looking at 1,200 years worth of data suggests.

The study, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found there had been more dramatic extremes of wet and dry weather in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution.

Researchers analysed evidence collected from tree rings, stream flows, ice cores and marine sediment, as well as historical records, to examine how weather conditions have changed over the centuries.