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.

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

Nuclear #fusion will not only come too late to help solve the #climatecrisis. Even in the long run it will not be the unlimited energy source that some are dreaming of. The reason is basic physics, and anyone can do the back-of-envelope calculation. 🧵1/