Friday 28th July 2017
One of the most worrying impacts of climate change is the increase in extreme storms and violent precipitation events taking place across the world. In A Farewell to Ice, Peter Wadhams states that for every degree of air temperature warming, “We add something like 7 percent of extra water vapour content to the atmosphere” (Pg. 109).
This additional water vapour is what is causing these wild rainfall/hailstorms we are seeing. As the water vapour content continues to rise, we are creating super-charged storms. Below is a tweet from the ‘severe-weather.EU’ account. It is one example of the many global extreme weather events taking place.
Many food crops can be destroyed by these extreme hailstorm events. If they were localised to one region, we could cope. But when these types of events are taking place across the world and are increasing in number and frequency, how do we protect the food crops? This is just one of the many ways our food supply is being jeopardised by inaction on climate change. Every day our leaders fail to limit emissions, the situation worsens.
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