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56. The statement minimizes so much in so few words...

Wed Sep 13, 2023, 01:49 PM

Sep 2023

"...Scientists say climate change is likely having an impact on rainfall and flooding ..."

LIKELY??

The vast majority of scientists say climate change is most definitely having an impact on rainfall and flooding.

"...but understanding precisely what that relationship is can be tricky."

TRICKY??

Earth's ecological systems are almost infinitely complex, tricky is certainly not a correctly descriptive word to use for the difficulties involved in tracing the multitude of interdependent relationships, reactions and influences taking place.

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Eight catastrophic floods in 11 days: What's behind intense rainfall around the world? [View all] OKIsItJustMe Sep 2023 OP

It's scarily becoming like those disaster movies where the world is coming to the end. kimbutgar Sep 2023 #1

all predicted by climate models for, what, 25 years lapfog_1 Sep 2023 #2

More than 40 OKIsItJustMe Sep 2023 #11

Warmer air holds more moisture, so more big rain events in places with humidity. Attilatheblond Sep 2023 #52

And warmer air holds more moisture, so it can carry more over hot dry areas without dropping it OKIsItJustMe Sep 2023 #54

Yep. Am in AZ and this year's monsoon was a non-soon Attilatheblond Sep 2023 #55

Since the early 70's at least. Ford_Prefect Sep 2023 #17

I worked with all of the climate scientists in the 1990s lapfog_1 Sep 2023 #19

It goes back even further than that OKIsItJustMe Sep 2023 #22

Don't remember Lovelock lapfog_1 Sep 2023 #24

Ah! Yes! I remember EOSDIS! OKIsItJustMe Sep 2023 #27

well, I generated the first instance of it. I hope the user community found it useful. lapfog_1 Sep 2023 #30

Wang et al. (1976): Greenhouse effects due to man-made perturbation of trace gases. OKIsItJustMe Sep 2023 #23

Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring in the 70's and WhiteTara Sep 2023 #28

Well, that was part of the impetus for Earth Day (there were several.) OKIsItJustMe Sep 2023 #31

Silent Spring is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson. Published on September 27, 1962. Ford_Prefect Sep 2023 #32

The only reason we have 8 billion people BlueIn_W_Pa Sep 2023 #44

yup... lapfog_1 Sep 2023 #46

Ha!.... Think. Again. Sep 2023 #3

How? Elessar Zappa Sep 2023 #51

The statement minimizes so much in so few words... Think. Again. Sep 2023 #56

Mother nature is PO'ed. republianmushroom Sep 2023 #4

All I'll say is that if... COL Mustard Sep 2023 #5

Welcome to the new normal Rural_Progressive Sep 2023 #6

Warmer air holds more moisture bucolic_frolic Sep 2023 #7

Read The Heat Will Kill You First (Life and death on a scorched planet) PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2023 #8

Both Delphinus Sep 2023 #15

Yes, absolutely. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2023 #37

Oh my ... Delphinus Sep 2023 #39

It could also have something to do with greater human population on the planet, royable Sep 2023 #9

We've always settled by bodies of water OKIsItJustMe Sep 2023 #13

Clearly there are a whole lot more humans on this planet PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2023 #38

The Pentagon (US Pentagon) declared "global warming"/ re-branded"climate change" to be the biggest Evolve Dammit Sep 2023 #10

Would you believe twenty? OKIsItJustMe Sep 2023 #14

Damn the time flies. Thank you for that. We are in a global crisis. Will we get our collective Evolve Dammit Sep 2023 #18

I'm aftraid the answer is "No." OKIsItJustMe Sep 2023 #20

It seems a tipping point has been crossed already. "Unprecedented" events almost daily Evolve Dammit Sep 2023 #47

My point exactly OKIsItJustMe Sep 2023 #53

great info. Thanks Evolve Dammit Sep 2023 #61

higher temps - more evaporation, also more capacity to hold onto the water Blues Heron Sep 2023 #12

And when it decides to let go of it, there's a lot more to drop OKIsItJustMe Sep 2023 #16

Physics hatrack Sep 2023 #21

There you go, blaming physics again! OKIsItJustMe Sep 2023 #26

Damn those pesky laws of physics... lapfog_1 Sep 2023 #29

For most practical purposes, 3.14 is sufficient OKIsItJustMe Sep 2023 #41

It's been holding me down my WHOLE LIFE!!!! hatrack Sep 2023 #42

Ha! Evolve Dammit Sep 2023 #48

Going out with a gurgle or a bang Marthe48 Sep 2023 #25

or a nuke from a RNK sub??? Evolve Dammit Sep 2023 #49

That too Marthe48 Sep 2023 #50

Agreed. It's just incredibly sad that we don't have the international will to stop it. Either way. Evolve Dammit Sep 2023 #63

It's DPRK and they don't have enough nukes to do it. Voltaire2 Sep 2023 #58

It doesn't take many to create massive casualties and complete havoc, with WW implications. Evolve Dammit Sep 2023 #62

Mid-nineteenth century scientific experiments predicted the effects of increased Co2... Ford_Prefect Sep 2023 #33

Nope. I heard Mark Levin say it's a hoax. progressoid Sep 2023 #34

Well, there's your answer SCantiGOP Sep 2023 #35

According to the internet he has 2 homes.... IcyPeas Sep 2023 #60

Flooding in Japan WestMichRad Sep 2023 #36

Close to 20 years ago we had a flood OKIsItJustMe Sep 2023 #40

Climate Catastrophe, politicians can't and won't respond adequately. 4 billion Gretas might work. Magoo48 Sep 2023 #43

Totally agree with you BlueIn_W_Pa Sep 2023 #45

Abnormal is now normal. Voltaire2 Sep 2023 #57

FAFO Kennah Sep 2023 #59