Climate change now causes too much rain – Is it increasing because of that?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

Can you tell what the weather was like last year, by reading the latest press releases about the apocalypse of climate science?

More rainy days due to climate change could slow economic growth: Study

Scientists examined 40 years of data from more than 1,500 global regions.

ViaDaniel Manzo
January 13, 2022, 04:32

More rainy days and extreme rainfall are likely to hit global economies, according to new research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

“This is about prosperity — and ultimately about people’s jobs,” Leonie Wenz, a principal scientist, told ABC News. “Economics worldwide are being slowed by wetter days and extreme daily rainfall, an important insight that helps us increasingly better understand the true costs of climate change. Queen”.

“We know from previous studies that flooding combined with extreme rainfall can damage infrastructure, which is important for economic productivity, and also cause production disruptions,” Wenz said. local export”. “A disruptive effect on businesses, manufacturing, transportation.”

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“Daily heavy rainfall is bad, especially for rich, industrial countries like the US, Japan or Germany,” Wenz said. But smaller, more agricultural economies could see some benefits.

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Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/rainy-days-climate-change-dampen-economic-growth-study/story?id=82185377

Summary of the study;

Published: January 12, 2022

Effects of rainfall changes on economic production

Maximilian Kotz, Anders Levermann & Leonie Wenz

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abstract

Macroeconomic assessments of climate impacts lack analysis of daily precipitation distributions, which can address both complex social impact channels and anthropogenically forced changes^{first,2,3,4,5,6}. Here, using a global panel of local economic output for 1,554 regions worldwide over the past 40 years, we show that economic growth decreases due to an increase in the number of days wetness and extreme daily precipitation, in addition to responding non-linearly to annual totals and to monthly standard deviations of precipitation. Furthermore, high-income countries and the service and manufacturing sectors are most strongly hindered by both daily precipitation measurements, complementing previous studies that emphasized the beneficial effects of total precipitation. additional annual rainfall in low-income, agriculture-dependent economies^4,7. By assessing the distribution of precipitation over multiple time periods and affecting different sectors, we uncover the channels through which climate conditions can affect the economy. These results suggest that humans enhance extreme daily precipitation^8,9,ten would have negative global economic consequences that require those wishing to further assess the costs of anthropogenic climate change.

Read more: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04283-8

Last year, the problem was drought;

Climate change and drought: What’s the link?

As average temperatures continue to escalate, drought has become a permanent part of our vocabulary.

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For tens of millions of Americans, drought has become a permanent natural disaster.

Events such as moderate to extreme drought conditions covered more than half of the continental United States in 2012, the super drought in the West continues todayand the summer of 2021 Record low water levels in Lake Mead has kept dry spells noticed and kept the effects of drought at bay – strict water conservation measures, crop failure and fears that withering vegetation will fuel dangerous wildfires – in people’s minds.

That is especially true in the western United States. Due to the largely semi-arid and desert climate of the West, drought is a natural phenomenon that occurs throughout the region. However, the region’s climate is not the only culprit for the drought. Climate change, specifically rising average temperatures due to anthropogenic emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, is also contributing to drought.

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Read more: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/08/climate-change-and-droughts-whats-the-connection/

Of course, CO2 is a bet when it comes to inclement weather. Climate scientists may not feel conflicted in trying to tie their stories to conflicting weather events. Any kind of bad weather is proof that the demonic molecule is cooking up the world, including extreme cold and snow events.