Climate change (global warming) and floods

 

Let's just keep this clear, one more time (and again and again and again as necessary).

Vermont Floods Show Limits of America’s Efforts to Adapt to Climate Change

Here's how it starts.  You'll probably be able to figure out the part I want to emphasize, which so many stubborn climate change deniers, wedded to their misconceptions and their tribal loyalties, cannot bring themselves to admit.

"This week’s flooding in Vermont, in which heavy rainfall caused destruction even miles from any river, is evidence of an especially dangerous climate threat: Catastrophic flooding can increasingly happen anywhere, with almost no warning.

And the United States, experts warn, is nowhere close to ready for that threat.

The idea that anywhere it can rain, it can flood, is not new. But rising temperatures make the problem worse: They allow the air to hold more moisture, leading to more intense and sudden rainfall, seemingly out of nowhere. And the implications of that shift are enormous."

Did you figure out the important part? I hope so.