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have we underestimated how climate change drives extreme rain and floods?

  • Written by Andrew Dowdy, Principal Research Scientist in Extreme Weather, The University of Melbourne
have we underestimated how climate change drives extreme rain and floods?Nomad_Soul/Shutterstock

In media articles about unprecedented flooding, you’ll often come across the statement that for every 1°C of warming, the atmosphere can hold about 7% more moisture.

This figure comes from research undertaken by the French engineer Sadi Carnot and published 200 years ago this year.

We now know there’s more to...

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