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Many of the Climate Impacts Predicted in the Last National Climate Assessment, in 2014, Are No Longer Theoretical (nytimes.com)
This year's report contains many of the same findings cited in the previous National Climate Assessment, published in 2014. From a report: More and more of the predicted impacts of global warming are now becoming a reality. For instance, the 2014 assessment forecast that coastal cities would see more flooding in the coming years as sea levels rose. That's no longer theoretical: Scientists have now documented a record number of "nuisance flooding" events during high tides in cities like Miami and Charleston, S.C.
"High tide flooding is now posing daily risks to businesses, neighborhoods, infrastructure, transportation, and ecosystems in the Southeast," the report says. As the oceans have warmed, disruptions in United States fisheries, long predicted, are now underway. In 2012, record ocean temperatures caused lobster catches in Maine to peak a month earlier than usual, and the distribution chain was unprepared.
"High tide flooding is now posing daily risks to businesses, neighborhoods, infrastructure, transportation, and ecosystems in the Southeast," the report says. As the oceans have warmed, disruptions in United States fisheries, long predicted, are now underway. In 2012, record ocean temperatures caused lobster catches in Maine to peak a month earlier than usual, and the distribution chain was unprepared.
Mid to Southern Europe, along with China's breadbasket, will be hit by high temps
Good news then as higher temps mean even more agriculture can blossom, since it will be warmer and WETTER. Which anyone would know intuitively, since warmer temperatures mean more water evaporating from the ocean - anywhere that gets water now will get more as it grows warmer.
The only thing that would result in areas getting dryer is if major changes occur in air patterns - or geology. Since most geology will remain about as we know it over the span of a hundred years or so (modulo supervolcanoes) it makes it especially puzzling to claim that areas of Southern Europe will not only bet warmer, but dryer...
Has anyone ever been to the deep southern US during summer? Does it get dryer there, do you find? Or in fact does the humidity not become worse during the summer than the winter....
I think the warming alarmists should really study how deserts are actually formed before they go making absurd claims like this one.
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