Climate Change World News intensifies deadly rain and floods in the south and midwests of America

Two churches, a Catholic and a baptist are filled with Kentaki River (Image: AP)

According to an analysis released by the World Weather Atribution Group of scientists on Thursday, the human-consual atmosphere change in early April accelerated the deadly rainfall in Arkansas, Kentaki, Tennessi and other states in Arkansas, Kentki, Tennessi and other states. The series of storms exposed tornado, strong winds and excessive rainfall in the Central Mississippi Valley region from 3-6 April and led to at least 24 deaths. Homes, roads and vehicles were submerged and the possibility of 15 deaths was due to frightening floods. WWA analysis found that climate change has increased the intensity of rainfall in storms by 9 percent and pre-industrial age climate has 40 percent more likely to them than the possibility of such incidents. Some of the humidity moisture to the storms came from the Gulf of Mexico, where the water temperature was unusually warm from 1.2 ° C (2.2 ° F) compared to pre-industrial temperature. According to researchers from universities and meteorological agencies in the United States and Europe, this warming is 14 times more likely due to climate change. Rapid analysis from WWA uses colleague-review methods to study the occurrence of an extreme weather and remove it for factors that cause it. This approach allows scientists to analyze which contribution factors had the greatest influence and how this phenomenon could be played in the world without climate change. The analysis found that a rain of April may occur once every 100 years in the Central Mississippi Valley region. Even heavy downpores are expected to hit the field in the future until the world rapidly reduces the emission of polluting gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, causing the temperature to increase, it has been said in the study. “One is likely to go down once in 100 years … every few decades are likely to go down once in 100 years,” said Ben Clarke, a lead writer of the Center for Environmental Policy and Study writer at the Imperial College London. “If we continue to burn fossil fuels, then such incidents will continue not only, but they will continue to be more dangerous.” Heavy and more frequent rainfall with climate change is expected as the atmosphere is more moisture with heating. The temperature of the warming ocean results in high evaporation rate, which means that more moisture is available for fuel storms. Information about the forecast from the National Meteorological Service and the weather alert already communicated the risks of heavy rainfall days in April, which WWA says the possibility of death has decreased. But the workforce and budget cut by the Trump administration has left almost half NWS offices with 20 percent vacancy rate or higher, with future extreme weather events and the upcoming Atlantic storm season, extending concerns for public safety which starts officially from June 1. “If we start cutting back in these offices or start reducing employees, the unfortunate result is going to lead to more death. We are going to die more people because the warning is not going out, the warning is not going to be as well as today,” a climatic professor for a climate professor of Erizona State University, which was not included in the study.

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