Earth’s water cycles are being changed by climate change faster than predicted, scientists warn, causing dry areas to get drier, and wet areas to get wetter.

This is leading to more extreme weather events, including flooding, and longer, droughts, say a team from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

The global water cycle is the constant movement of freshwater between the clouds, land and the ocean, and it plays an important role in our daily lives.

It is a delicate network, that keeps environments habitable and soil fertile, moving water from the ocean to the land, but the Australian team found that rising global temperatures were making the system more extreme.

They found water is moving away from dry regions towards wet regions, causing droughts to worsen in some areas, while intensifying rainfall and flooding in others.

‘In other words, wet areas are getting wetter, and dry areas are getting drier,’ the team wrote.

The findings have been published in the journal Nature.

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https://www.msn.com/en-au/weather/topstories/climate-change-is-changing-earth-s-water-cycles-faster-than-predicted/ar-AAUgGBf?ocid=msedgntp

Thanks.

The suffering is onnly becoming greater.

Which part of “feed-back-loop” didn’t they understand?

> causing dry areas to get drier, and wet areas to get wetter.

Not according to the last IPCC report.

But if you’re limiting your world view to Australia the whole of the East coast (including the Murray Darling, Lake Eyre etc) is getting wetter and the whole of the West coast is getting drier.

mollwollfumble said:

> causing dry areas to get drier, and wet areas to get wetter.

Not according to the last IPCC report.

But if you’re limiting your world view to Australia the whole of the East coast (including the Murray Darling, Lake Eyre etc) is getting wetter and the whole of the West coast is getting drier.

California is also under the longest drought in their history
Western USA is Burning from the (Former) Rain Forest to Mexico
meanwhile the once reliable trade winds is snaking wildly, one day blowing
from the Arctic the very next from the Equator then back again disrupting all the
normal yearly migrations of wildlife from the famous Monarch Butterflies to Hummingbirds

mollwollfumble said:

> causing dry areas to get drier, and wet areas to get wetter.

Not according to the last IPCC report.

But if you’re limiting your world view to Australia the whole of the East coast (including the Murray Darling, Lake Eyre etc) is getting wetter and the whole of the West coast is getting drier.

Refs?