– some places are experiencing droughts while sea levels rise. if sea levels rise how come certain areas suffer from droughts?
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Sea level itself doesn’t have a lot to do with airborne water though it’s temperature affects wind patterns and alter weather.
Ground water often stored in aquifiers and refreshed with rain and snow. That rain and snow comes from weather patterns lifting water into the air (evaporation) and moving it (wind currents) to locations where it meets cooler air and precipitates down to the Earth.
If changes in wind currents no longer blow the evaporated water over certain areas then the aquifiers don’t get refreshed. Then a combination of evaporation and irrigation depletes the area. Dry ground loses plant life, becomes more arid heats up and the likelihood of rain coming to refresh the Earth lessens.
This process is always happening and creates the changes you see year over year, but climate change is increasing both the severity of droughts and of storms.
Polar ment will add more cold water to the oceans and change the currents which will also change how the evaporation over water occurs and change wind currents that carry that water.
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