Unlike cyclones, it is the rain these systems carry that tends to kill. The slower they move, the longer they linger, the more rain they dump. | OPINION by Nick O'Malley climatechange climateaction
Using language that sounded oddly familiar to an Australian ear he warned that citizens of around the world were already being “clobbered” by climate change.
He says that it was as if those who’d managed to escape to evacuation centres, those left in the floodwaters and those watching on fearfully from homes nearby were looking into the mirror wondering what had just happened to them, and what might happen in the days to come.with 80 per cent of the region’s annual rainfall over three days as a “rain bomb” lingered over the region. Authorities were staging careful releases from the Wivenhoe Dam which was at 180 per cent capacity.
What’s this got to do with Guterres? Well, in the simplest terms, says climate scientist Will Steffen, for every 1 degree it warms, the atmosphere can hold 7 per cent more moisture, all of which is fodder for the monster lows that prowl our coast. Climate change is making severe weather more severe.
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