YES - MUDSLIDES WILL BE MORE COMMON WITH CLIMATE CHANGE. Why the media spent almost 20 days looking for one missing Malaysian airplane with 300 lost souls when extreme events like this mudslide caused almost 200 lost souls (176 still missing but rescue has turned to recovery - so it may be 200 dead and fears of more flooding as a dam may break) in Washington state (which is in the Unites States of America), and there was not non-stop coverage of it and WHY: (Climate Change caused record precipitation) is maddening to me. The media is as guilty of malpractice on climate change as they were on the rush to war in Iraq! Watch the latest VICE on HBO - real journalism, where they went to Greenland and watched fjords the size of skyscrapers crashing non-stop into the ocean. The episode is called Greenland Melting. Heres an excerpt from the article LINKED BELOW: But we don’t have to wait for the future. This is already happening. Here’s an explainer, from the Union of Concerned Scientists: As average global temperatures rise, the warmer atmosphere can also hold more moisture, about 4 percent more per degree Fahrenheit temperature increase. Thus, when storms occur there is more water vapor available in the atmosphere to fall as rain, snow or hail. Worldwide, water vapor over oceans has increased by about 4 percent since 1970 according to the 2007 U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, its most recent. slate/blogs/future_tense/2014/03/24/oso_wash_mudslide_climate_change_may_bring_more_such_disasters.html It only takes a small change in the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere to have a major effect. That’s because storms can draw upon water vapor from regions 10 to 25 times larger than the specific area where the rain or snow actually falls. According to the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s (USGCRP) most recent report, scientists have observed less rain falling in light precipitation events and more rain falling in the heaviest precipitation events across the United States. From 1958 to 2007, the amount of rainfall in the heaviest 1 percent of storms increased 31 percent, on average, in the Midwest and 20 percent in the Southeast.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 17:57:05 +0000
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