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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Yikes. I was there a couple months ago. I wonder if the Kalalua trail was destroyed as well?
It's impossible to tell how much of the damage was due to global warming, as warming isn't 100% responsible for weather damage. Perhaps severity and/or frequency increases with warming, but even freak storms exist regardless of warming.
Are there any estimates of how much more powerful storms are compared with, say, 1900 levels of CO2 and temperature?
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We know that there is about 4-5% more evaporation, and this leads to more heavy precipitation events. Around the world, there have been record setting events.
It used to be that 1/2" rain in an hour was a lot of rain. Now, we see 4", 5" or more per hour. A foot of rain in a few hours, are becoming fairly common - in virtually any place on earth.