The physics of this is simple: the amount of water vapor that a volume of air can hold and then rain out increases exponentially with temperature by 7% per °C warming. That's elementary 19th Century, first semester physics, the Clausius–Clapeyron relation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clausius%E2%80%93Clapeyron_relation
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf (rahmstorf@fediscience.org)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 09:08:01 CET Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf (rahmstorf@fediscience.org)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 09:08:01 CET Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
This increase in extreme rainfall and damaging flooding has been predicted by climate models for over 30 years now. And the data show it is happening as predicted.