Report: USA's heavy rain events rising due to climate change (far more severe in New England)

[cali]

MONTPELIER, Vt. – Nearly a year after the remnants of Hurricane Irene unleashed devastating floods in much of Vermont, a new report by an environmental group says extreme downpours and snowfalls are the new normal — up 85 percent in New England since 1948.

Nationally, Environment America's report found that storms with extreme precipitation increased in frequency by 30 percent across the contiguous United States from 1948 to 2011. It said the largest annual storms produced 10 percent more precipitation, on average.

It said New England was the region where the trend was most pronounced. Intense storms more than doubled in New Hampshire during the period studied while increasing 84 percent in Vermont.

The report, which analyzed 80 million daily precipitation records from the contiguous U.S., attributed the increase in severity of the downpours in part to global warming.

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http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/story/2012-07-31/heavy-rain-climate-change-global-warming-environment-america/56621946/1

[Politicalboi]

1. We need to pipe water

From states that have too much to those that need it. Why just let it flood cities or run off to waste. If it was raining oil, we would gather it, why not water.

[hedgehog]

3. Water takes energy to pump - but we've done it already - check out this book:

Cadillac Desert:
The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Front Cover
Marc Reisner
278 Reviews
Penguin, 1993 - Nature - 582 pages
Newly updated, this timely history of the struggle to discover and control water in the American West is a tale of rivers diverted and damned, political corruption and intrigue, billion-dollar battles over water rights, and economic and ecological disaster. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Photos.



BTW - don't even think of moving water out of the Great Lakes Basin; not unless you want to go to war with Canada!

[Politicalboi]

5. Using energy to pump water would be worth the effort IMO

Just think of all that water from Katrina. If they had a way to pump a lot of the water out before the flooding happened, Katrina would have been just another storm. And when more Global Warming happens and the water level rises, we could pipe that water throughout the US.

[cali]

4. You're right. we'd find a way if it was oil

[hedgehog]

2. Here's a home demonstration :

Put a pot of water on the stove at a low temperature. Eventually you'll see a tidy stream of bubbles rising through the water from the bottom of the pot. This a a low simmer. You'll notice that there is little mixing of the water.

Turn the heat way up high to a rapid boil. You'll see the water becomes very turbulent.

I suppose you could have fun tossing in ice cubes here and there as well!