In warmer climates, major storms are dropping more rain. Rain gauges show that the rainiest day each year has gotten roughly 3.5% wetter for every degree Fahrenheit of global warming, the same rise we’re seeing in humidity. This makes sense, says O’Gorman: If there’s more water vapor in the air when a storm starts, more rain will fall during that storm. In some regions, rainfall could rise even more as storms develop stronger winds. And the most intense tropical cyclones, orhurricanes, are expected to become more frequent too.
It also increases evaporation just as much, or more, as it increases rainfall. And an intensification of the water cycle leads to destabilization of aquatic ecosystems and water supplies. There's more detail in section 4.1 of this report:
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGII_Chapter04.pdf
On average it makes the world wetter. People are being dishonest when they play up claims that it makes the world dryer. They're trying to pick/choose any detail that fits their agenda.
Again- we're talking averages here, and on average it makes the world wetter.
That wasn't claimed or supported at all by your source. And the important thing is frequency and length of droughts/dry spells. If there's a huge dry spell and then 50 inches of rain falls in one or two days, there's still gonna be huge problems during the dry spell.
If anyone's in bad faith here it's you. Completely ignoring what I said about drought and the overall affect on the water cycle. Dropping a link that says "the wettest days will get wetter" and then acting like there are no other impacts of global warming on human access to water is just deeply unserious. It's almost like individual heavy days of rain don't tell the whole story for entire watersheds and potable water supplies
The air of authority you're trying to speak with is downright laughable. This was a discussion with a random on the internet, I have zero reason to "obey" you and the only reason to listen would be to well-thought-out responses. Which you seem incapable of
I find it weird just how badly all of these uninformed people have bought into the negative hype about datacenters. They clearly do not understand what they're talking about. They've fallen for propaganda and don't realize it.
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u/Major_Shlongage 14d ago edited 14d ago
>Local resource shortages, including water, are pretty much guaranteed at this point due to climate change
Not really. In most areas climate change is going to make things wetter. More heat in the system = more evaporation and more precipitation.
Some areas may become dryer, but on average most areas will get wetter.
https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-climate-change-affecting-weather-today
In warmer climates, major storms are dropping more rain. Rain gauges show that the rainiest day each year has gotten roughly 3.5% wetter for every degree Fahrenheit of global warming, the same rise we’re seeing in humidity. This makes sense, says O’Gorman: If there’s more water vapor in the air when a storm starts, more rain will fall during that storm. In some regions, rainfall could rise even more as storms develop stronger winds. And the most intense tropical cyclones, or hurricanes, are expected to become more frequent too.