Oh FFS
Posted on 02/18/2022 8:18:53 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Scientists say that a rapid drop in emissions because of Covid played a key role in record rainfall in China in 2020.
The decline in greenhouse gases and small particles called aerosols caused atmospheric changes that intensified the downpours.
Many parts of eastern China experienced severe flooding in June and July in 2020. The researchers say the reductions in emissions contributed about one third of the extreme summer rain.
A number of scientific studies have looked at what caused the flooding events, some pointing to the extreme conditions in the Indian Ocean.
Now an international team has put forward a new theory. They argue that the abrupt reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols, caused by shutdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic, was a key cause of the intense downpours.
However, the chain of events that connects the pandemic shutdown to the floods is quite complex.
"There was heating over land due to aerosol reductions but also cooling over the ocean due to a decrease in greenhouse gases, which intensified the land/sea temperature difference in the summer," explained lead author Prof Yang Yang from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, in China.
"This in turn, increased sea level pressure over the South China/Philippines sea and intensified the winds bringing moist air to eastern China which then saw intense precipitation."
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It happened one time. You can’t deny the obvious pattern!
There is no winning this climate thing. If you emit gasses, you get drought. If you stop emitting, you get floods. That’s the theory anyway.
Oh FFS
moisture is a greenhouse gas.
Record rain in China...hows that 3 Georges dam doing.....inquiring minds seek to know.
“However, the chain of events that connects the pandemic shutdown to the floods is quite complex.”
It depends on whether one considers a huge pile of poo to be complex or not.
Wow! These people are destroying what little credibility they have with every single word they write.
This smells of desperation.
I am so fed up with these climate change “scientists”.
What a bunch of total BS.
I predict that the US will go bankrupt before Obama’s property is flooded.
Flooding was unknown in China before the 20th century.
/s
It’s actually quite the opposite. China industry is dirty in terms of pollution. They make most of their electricity by burning coal. Also if you were paying attention to the news during early Covid, the floods were happening before the claimed slowdown or at least during the very earliest part of the pandemic. I was at home watching YouTube videos on the other computer out of the corner of my eye and there was no way the complex series of events postulated in this article could have happened quickly enough to be causative.
LOL he buys an oceanside mansion in Massachusetts and is building an oceanside mansion in Hawaii. How truly stupid does he think us peons are about this?
Is there ANYTHING CONvid-one9 can’t do?
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