Thursday, November 15, 2018

More rains from hurricanes - due to climate change


It stands to reason (even though climate change deniers can rarely be considered rational) that with more water vapor in the atmosphere due to warming global temperatures -- which there is -- weather systems which involve rain would be able to create more precipitation.

And apparently, they do. This is not a surprise, but it's a good confirmation.

Climate change has intensified hurricane rainfall, and now we know how much
"Today, we know that Harvey wasn’t an outlier. A new study, published Wednesday in Nature by the same lab, reports that climate change intensified the rains of Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria by between 4 and 9 percent. The researchers predict that future warming could increase rainfall totals for the most extreme hurricanes and tropical cyclones by up to 30 percent."
So, more now, and even more later -- potentially causing more flooding, and thus more dangerous conditions, and thus a higher likelihood of fatalities.

Increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations, which cause Earth's temperature to increase, cause more bad weather. And that sure isn't part of a hoax or a conspiracy, it's a fact.




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