eli5: I know that these most recent severe storms and disasters are undoubtedly a result of worsening climate change, but as a non-science person I don’t understand exactly how/why.
In: Planetary Science
The analogy I like best is that warm air is a better sponge than cool air. So, as the air warms up, it sponges up more water from the ocean. When the warm sponge hits cool air, it releases the water. As a result, things rain related become more severe because the rain sponge is bigger.
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