Palaeoclimatological evidence covering the past millennium suggests that the global water cycle has changed in the past century. Agreement with climate models points to human activity as the main cause.
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Evans, M. The woods fill up with snow. Nature 440, 1120–1121 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/4401120a
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