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Seit 30 Jahren warnen Klimaforscher: Erderwärmung führt zu mehr Extremregen. Die Messdaten bestätigen das schon lange.
Vielleicht wäre es doch gut, mehr auf die Wissenschaft zu hören?

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@wanderspieler @dr_jo_mue @rahmstorf


(2/n)

...The potential is mentioned only very vaguely:

"Thermal pollution 👉may have👈 serious climatic effects, worldwide, when it reaches some appreciable fraction of the energy normally absorbed by the earth from the sun."

The economically insightful study, just references to another study:...

@wanderspieler @dr_jo_mue @rahmstorf


(3/n)

..."Inadvertent Climate Modification, Report of the Study of Man's Impact on Climate" 2)

2)
archive.org/details/inadverten

There, you find 25 "rain" hits. Reading them, it becomes clear that 👉knowledge was very limited back then👈. No surprise, it doesn't talk about "extreme weather events" either:

"...especially in the Northern Hemisphere — which would occur after the arctic sea ice melted are unknown,...

Internet ArchiveInadvertent climate modification : Report of the study of man's impact on climate (SMIC) : Study of Man's Impact on Climate (1970 : Stockholm) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivexxi, 308 pages : 22 cm
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

@wanderspieler @dr_jo_mue @rahmstorf


(4/n)

...but they 👉might be large and include changes in precipitation, seasonal temperatures, wind systems, and ocean currents👈.

The possible effects on the ice cap are likewise unknown—whether it would increase because of an increase in precipitation or begin to melt, and how long it might take for such changes to occur, although 👉we believe any such changes would take many centuries. 👈"
...

@wanderspieler @dr_jo_mue @rahmstorf

(5/n)

...In my understanding, the authors even reach a different conclusion:

"Many apparent [epocs of a more humid climate] were due only to the de¬ crease of evaporation with lower temperatures, without marked change of precipitation; 👉evidence of an actual increase of rainfall is rare."👈

Focus seems to have been and .

*So, from the materials researched,...*

@wanderspieler @dr_jo_mue @rahmstorf


(6/6)

*...the global increase in the frequently of , including torrential like the ones currently taking place in was NOT something known as early as 1972.*

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