Dry parts of the planet to get drier, wet parts wetter

This is the story in an article in The Conversation.

The article says.

 The cycle of evaporation and rainfall over the past 50 years has intensified at twice the rate predicted by climate change models, according to a report by US and Australian scientists of ocean salt levels.

The article is linked below.
http://theconversation.edu.au/dry-parts-of-the-planet-to-get-drier-wet-parts-wetter-6700
Is this a hoax, a conspiracy, that the deniers would say from organisations like the American Heartland Institute and Australia's Galileo Movement.