Must-Read Trenberth: How To Relate Climate Extremes to Climate Change
Source: Climate Progress
The answer to the oft-asked question of whether an event is caused by climate change is that it is the wrong question. All weather events are affected by climate change because the environment in which they occur is warmer and moister than it used to be….
The air is on average warmer and moister than it was prior to about 1970 and in turn has likely led to a 5–10 % effect on precipitation and storms that is greatly amplified in extremes. The warm moist air is readily advected onto land and caught up in weather systems as part of the hydrological cycle, where it contributes to more intense precipitation events that are widely observed to be occurring.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/03/25/451347/must-read-trenberth-how-to-relate-climate-extremes-to-climate-change/
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Could be the scientific reason for 7,000 temperature records broken in 25 days......
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moist (moist)
adj. moist·er, moist·est
1. Slightly wet; damp or humid. See Synonyms at wet.
2. Filled with or characterized by moisture.
3. Tearful.
