- A series of “once-in-a-millennium” rainstorms have lashed the United States in recent weeks, flooding areas baked dry by long-term droughts, as human-caused climate change brings weather whiplash.
- A warming planet is not a benign place in a far-off future where it is always a bit sunnier; it’s a place of wild swings, where the wets are wetter and the dries are drier.
- These events were supercharged by an oversupply of atmospheric moisture — a direct consequence of the planet being hotter.
Dust to downpour: U.S. weather whiplash shows climate change
