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This is terrible. My Australian friends are complaining endless rain during summer is ruining their quality of life.
by keepquestioning 4y ago
This is terrible. My Australian friends are complaining endless rain during summer is ruining their quality of life.
- notimetorelax 4y agoDublin would like to have a word with them.
- siquick 4y agoSydney gets almost double the rain that Dublin gets. http://www.weather-guide.com/Weather-Comparison/Dublin-Sydney-weather.html http://www.weather-guide.com/Weather-Comparison/Dublin-Sydne...
- bobnamob 4y agoThe 3 “once in a century” flood events haven’t been great either
- keepquestioning 4y agoIs there any link to climate change & flooding?
- lisper 4y agoYes.
- culi 4y agoNot Australia, but a recent study[0] confirmed the Pakistan flooding (in which 10% of this country that's larger than Texas is underwater) links to climate change. Historically, tying events like this to climate change in a way that lives up to scientific rigor has been quite difficult, but techniques and available data have been improving. Allowing us to tie many extreme weather events to climate change, including: the seemingly never-ending droughts in the Horn of Africa, Mexico, and China, flash floods in West and Central Africa, Iran and the inland United States and searing heat waves in India, Japan, California, Britain and Europe. They refrained for making estimates for the Pakistan flooding, but earlier this year scientists found that the heat that scorched India and Pakistan this spring had been 30 times as likely to occur because of greenhouse emissions. July’s extreme heat in Britain had been at least 10 times as likely If you're looking for a mechanism of action for how climate change can make monsoons more deadly, it's likely to do with increased evaporation of water due to increased temperatures and the fact that hotter air holds more moisture [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/climate/pakistan-floods-global-warming.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/climate/pakistan-floods-g...
- gilded-lilly 4y agoIncreased instrumentation/data could also lead to bias in the data through increased volume. I’m sure there’s a name for this effect.
- keepquestioning 4y agoMeasurement bias?
- culi 4y agothe bias could be in either direction
- scaramanga 4y agoI will take a leap of faith and assume this isn't intended as a joke. Yes, CO2 traps heat in air, trapped heat in air means hotter surface and hotter air, most of earth's surface is water, hotter surface means more water vapour, hotter air means more capacity to carry water vapour, water vapour forms clouds, clouds lead to precipitation. Climate change is leading simultaneously to two issues: not enough water, too much water. The former is obvious why: more water in air, means more rain, combined with more heat means more and bigger hurricanes/typhoons etc.. At the same time, due to more complex effects, droughts occur. Basically that is happening in regions where wind and ocean currents are not transferring moisture in to the region, but heat is causing evaporation. Other effects also contribute (eg. reduced snow pack in mountains, leading to there being less ice to melt to keep rivers flowing). You can google "what is climate change?"
- dotancohen 4y agoSounds better than drought, so long as there is no flooding.
- bobnamob 4y agoThere’s definitely been flooding.
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- indigodaddy 4y agoBelieve will cause dryness in certain parts of US (Southwest perhaps)
- bushbaba 4y agoIt can be just as bad if not worse for crops
- dbetteridge 4y agoLismore,NSW would like a word.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoQueensland sometimes gets both. The floodwater destroys everything but sweeps past without soaking in.
- byhemechi 4y agoFor people like myself who live on top of a hill, it's been pretty good not having 40 degree heat For people in lower-lying areas, it's been less good
- cassepipe 4y agoWell let's hope Autralia steps away from being a major coal producer
- Schroedingersat 4y agoBoth major parties in Australia are busy using tax money to destroy the great barrier reef (and tens of thousands of tourism jobs) so that a coal mine can open and provide a few hundred jobs. Don't hold your breath
- scaramanga 4y agoNot likely, it's central government has been completely captured by coal interests. You could say they have been "carbon captured" _sunglasses_
- quickthrower2 4y agoAfter cancelling holidays for covid, they are now rained out. In addition mould is a big issue. Takes weeks or months to fix. Potentially could write off a house. “ And those are the “first world” problems before you talk about actual floods.