Drought-hit Panama Canal must 'adapt or die' as water levels drop

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2. We are heating up

The record highs out number record lows 3 or 4 to 1. What is most notable is greater variation and greater extremes. It isn't just a little warmer. At 1.5 Celsius we already have 12% more water vapor in the air, that is water not on the ground as much. And then when it does rain record floods are more common. Here in the northeast USA the current frequency for '100 year floods' is about every two years and every ten years for '500 year' floods. Deforestation hurts too has the ground gets hotter and less water gets held back in plants and in the shade.