How rising water vapour in the atmosphere is amplifying warming and making extreme weather worse
- Written by: Kevin Trenberth, Distinguished Scholar, NCAR; Affiliate Faculty, University of Auckland
This year’s string of record-breaking disasters – from deadly wildfires and catastrophic floods to record-high ocean temperatures and record-low sea ice in Antarctica – seems like an acceleration of human-induced climate change.
And it is. But not only because greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. What we are also observing...