HUNDREDS of residents and cottagers on Lake Manitoba and other flood-prone parts of the province were ordered to get out...Details here.
* “I find it systematically tends to get underplayed by my fellow scientists. I’m sure you’ve probably heard, ‘Well you can’t attribute a single event to climate change.’ But there is a systematic influence on all of these weather events nowadays because of the fact that there is this extra water vapor lurking around in the atmosphere than there used to be say 30 years ago. It’s about a 4% extra amount, it invigorates the storms, it provides plenty of moisture for these storms and it’s unfortunate that the public is not associating these with the fact that this is one manifestation of climate change. And the prospects are that these kinds of things will only get bigger and worse in the future.”
*Kevin Trenberth, lead author with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Senior Scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.
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