Posted on 01/19/2023 8:13:16 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
As damaging as it was for more than 32 trillion gallons of rain and snow to fall on California since Christmas, a worst-case global warming scenario could juice up similar future downpours by one-third by the middle of this century, a new study says.
The entire western United States would likely see a 31% increase in precipitation from these worst of the worst storms in a souped-up warming world because of more intense and widely spread rainfall, the study said.
Scientists say the worst-case scenario, which is about 4.4 degrees Celsius (7.9 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming since pre-industrial times, looks a bit more unlikely since efforts are being undertaken to rein in emissions. If countries do as they promise, temperatures are on track to warm about 2.7 degrees Celsius (4.9 degrees Fahrenheit), according to Climate Action Tracker.
“It could be even worse,” said study author Ruby Leung, a climate scientist at the U.S. Pacific Northwest National Lab. “We need to start planning how would we be able to deal with this.”
Leung used regional scale computer simulations to predict what the worst of the western winter storms will be like between 2040 and 2070 in a scenario where carbon emissions have run amok.
“We are providing more of a worst-case scenario, but understanding that if we do take action to reduce emissions in the future, we could end up better,” Leung said. “If we control the emissions and lower the global warming in the future, we can limit the impacts of climate change on the society, particularly flooding and extreme precipitation that we are talking about in this study.”
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like wetter and warmer is BAD.
Fools ...
So, will rain be 120% wet now? That climate huh? What can’t it do?
I swear, I was just a few weeks ago reading articles about how warming was going to make California droughts even drier.
They need to make up their minds!
Make up your mind, is it draughts or floods/snow that are caused by Global Warming.
Also, wherever you're getting your Goebbels picture from has apparently blocked hotlinking, so all we're seeing is the broken image symbol. You may still be seeing the image because it is in your cache.
Isn’t “wet” a binary condition? You’re either wet or you aren’t. There’s no in between.
Wait, I thought globull warming was causing droughts? So... climate change is.... a changing climate, like, you know, weather.
Problem #1 — Climate Change is causing a massive drought in the West and it’s awful.
Problem #2 — Climate Change is causing massive rainfall in the West and it’s awful.
Seth Borenstein is a hack.
Make up your mind
The Answer is Blowin in the Wind.
Dylan
I thought California was in a perpetual drought because of global warming.
It’s just weather and it’s always changing , so it’s “Weather Change” ,LOL
Visit the Pacific Northwest sometime where we have over 57 varieties of wet.
;’}
With all that info and climate models why didn’t they predict this monsoon?
In 300 years the sky will fall too. Nothing more than Voodoo Science again.
If only I had an umbrella with the colors of the Ukraine flag…
Wait, wasn’t this supposed to be a TEN THOUSAND YEAR DROUGHT that would DESTROY California with THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK?
LOL!!!
They are speaking to folk who lack the IQ to remember what they said just a while back.
IQ is a distribution. 100 = average. Those that vote Demo without question are all on the left (lower) side. The ones who still do that but are on the smarter side are all on the take.
Most everybody else just calls BS and gets on with their lives — since they are the ones that make everything in the world.
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