Posted on 04/26/2024 4:44:22 AM PDT by Pontiac
The record-breaking rain that fell over the United Arab Emirates and Oman this month, triggering deadly floods and chaos, was driven partly by the climate crisis, according to a scientific analysis published Thursday, which pointed directly at humans burning fossil fuels.
A team of 21 scientists and researchers, under the World Weather Attribution initiative, found that climate change was making extreme rainfall events in the two countries — which typically fall during El Niño years — between 10 and 40% more intense than they would have been without global warming.
Over a period of less than 24 hours between April 14 and 15, the United Arab Emirates experienced its heaviest rainfall in since records began 75 years ago. Dubai — a glitzy desert city accustomed to going months with no precipitation at all — experienced the equivalent of more than a year and a half’s worth of rain in that time, the analysis said.
However, they concluded global warming was the “most likely” driver of the record rainfall, because the atmosphere in a 1.2-degree warmer world can now hold 8.4% more moisture, which is making extreme rain events more intense. Changing circulation patterns driven by global warming are also increasing rainfall intensity, the analysis noted.
Global warming was the only remaining reason they could identify to explain the heavier downpour.
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In Washington, DC, temperatures are taken at the airport next to the Potomac River’s breezes, and are often at odds with the warmer temperatures downtown or in the poorer sections of the city.
Meanwhile, I wish we would hear/learn more about the effects of the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption that sent huge quantities of water into our upper atmosphere. How much of it is still up there, and how fast is it coming down and becoming part of the current weather conditions, especially rainfall? Yes, desert cities in the middle east and even our own Las Vegas have occasional very heavy rainfall, but it does seem there have been some unusually heavy rains/flooding in a number of places the past two year. Even Russia has just had major flooding which broke a dam recently.
Anything bad or unusual in the way of weather == climate change
Solution == let a cabal of war profiteers regulate everything
And then there is Phoenix, Arizona where the rain evaporates before it hits the ground.
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