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Thanks to climate change, when it rains, it pours, Northeastern study confirms
The Boston Globe ^ | October 14, 2022 | By Dharna Noor, The Boston Globe

Posted on 10/14/2022 10:10:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

As heavy rains and wind pound Massachusetts and forecasters warn of potential flooding, power outages, and downed trees, new research affirms something many have long suspected: Ordinary rain storms are getting more intense in the eastern United States.

The study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters this week, links the findings to the climate crisis. The authors, researchers at Northwestern University, analyzed rainfall data from some 1,700 weather stations across the US. They found that in the swath of the US east of the Rocky Mountains, rainstorms dropped about 5 percent more water on average in the years 1991 to 2020 than they did 1951 to 1980. The increase was even stronger in New England, where storms brought up to 6 percent more rain, the authors say.

Researchers have repeatedly confirmed climate models’ predictions of wetter, more powerful extreme rain events like hurricanes, caused by warmer air, which can hold more moisture. The new study’s authors wanted to see if mundane rain events are getting wetter, too.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: absurdconclusion; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 10/14/2022 10:10:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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So all of the rain that used to fall in the West now goes to the East? You damn Yankees! We want our rain back!


2 posted on 10/14/2022 10:12:01 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“I used to be nothing but a Deplorable Clinger, but I've been promoted to Brigadier Ultra-MAGA”)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Confirmation Bias.


3 posted on 10/14/2022 10:12:32 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There is one thing that climate change has affected. The brains of lefty journalists.


4 posted on 10/14/2022 10:13:28 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Kick every last democrat out of office! )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Rain is a lot wetter now than it used to be.


5 posted on 10/14/2022 10:17:19 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Less rain is bad, more rain is bad.


6 posted on 10/14/2022 10:21:05 AM PDT by Codeflier (I am just going to assume you are a Democrat if you call me a Putin supporter and ignore you.)
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Umm, gosh, I guess the winter of ‘82 in the West never happened?

State St in Salt Lake had sandbags from North Temple down to 4th South to hold back the river. Never seen anything like that in the previous 10 years.

Dopes from Chicago starting with a conclusion and working backwards.


7 posted on 10/14/2022 10:21:30 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate Change - Is there anything it can’t do?


8 posted on 10/14/2022 10:21:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Experts blame Permian-Triassic Great Dying on dinosaurs.


9 posted on 10/14/2022 10:22:00 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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Corrrection: winter of ‘83.

My bad. It was 4 decades ago, yuh know?

http://www.slcdocs.com/utilities/NewsEvents/news1999/news5281999.htm


10 posted on 10/14/2022 10:22:56 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Something must have happened during the missing 1981 to 1990 period that messed up the pre-determined agenda.


11 posted on 10/14/2022 10:26:00 AM PDT by Starstruck ( Living life, Binge watching re-runs of actual history.)
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i’m 78....live in upstae ny...nothing has changd...the weather changes but the climate is constant.


12 posted on 10/14/2022 10:29:57 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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Since the days of Calvin Coolidge, the Notheast has become increasingly Leftist. In the same time period rainfall in the Northeast has increased 5% according to the article. Therefore Leftists cause global warming"climate change". Q.E.D.

13 posted on 10/14/2022 10:30:33 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: dfwgator

“Climate Change - Is there anything it can’t do?”

Climate change - Is there anything it can’t be blamed for?

(You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

Rahm Emanuel)

If you don’t have a real crisis, create one.


14 posted on 10/14/2022 10:32:22 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

B.S.!!!!

The same are that now is having the big rainstorms was recently affected by drought!!! These weather changes are normal!!!!


15 posted on 10/14/2022 10:35:41 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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GIGO


16 posted on 10/14/2022 10:37:47 AM PDT by EEGator
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Welp, what can you expect from an AP “journalist’.

Of course it’s “Climate Change”. What else could it be? Look, if you don’t know what caused it, mainly because you have no idea of what weather is really about, then the answer has to be “Climate Change”. That answer works for almost everything.

If Climate Change doesn’t work as the answer, then the answer is clearly Racism.


17 posted on 10/14/2022 10:40:38 AM PDT by FMBass (USN vet DE-1074 Retired Chem E)
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I live in southeastern Connecticut, just got about 3 1/2 inches last night and we’re still in a Stage 2 drought which means low interest loans.


18 posted on 10/14/2022 10:42:37 AM PDT by bertmerc1 (Conservative Buddhist)
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If they can't tell Northeastern from Northwestern, then we can't expect them to understand the weather either.
19 posted on 10/14/2022 10:42:54 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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Oh yeah, right…pure BS…


20 posted on 10/14/2022 10:50:44 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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