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eavy rainfall events
setting ever new records have been increasing strikingly in the past thirty
years.
While before 1980, multi-decadal fluctuations in extreme
rainfall events are explained by natural variability, a team of scientists of
the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research detected a clear upward trend
in the past few decades towards more unprecedented daily rainfall events.
They find the worldwide increase to be consistent with
rising global temperatures which are caused by greenhouse-gas emissions from
burning fossil fuels. Short-term torrential rains can lead to high-impact
floodings.
Read the report - “Record-breaking heavy rainfall events increased under global warming”.
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