Precipitations Increasingly Abundant Due to Climate Warming
Nature seems to have lost its compass in recent years.
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Nature seems to have lost its compass in recent years.
More frequent disastrous flooding will accompany climate change, unless humans reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a new study predicts.
State-of-the-art climate models drastically underestimate how much extreme rainfall increases under global warming, according to a study published Monday that signals a future of more frequent catastrophic floods unless humanity curbs greenhouse emissions. "Our study confirms that the intensity and frequency of heavy rainfall extremes are increasing exponentially with every increment of global warming," said Max Kotz, lead author of the paper published in the Journal of Climate.
State-of-the-art climate models drastically underestimate how much extreme rainfall increases under global warming, according to a study published Monday that signals a future of more frequent catastrophic floods unless humanity
The US Climate Prediction Center has raised odds beyond 90% that an El Niño weather pattern will form later this year.