How does global warming effects flooding?
Flooding is very powerful and can move cars houses and more.
The moisture in the atmosphere is increasing, more water is being evaporated during the water cycle.
-90% of water in the atmosphere is evaporated from the water cycle and more and more is being evaporated because the ozone layer is fading leaving the suns heat not much to fight through.
Australia has lots of deforestation and brush clearance
-This increases the amount and how fast the runoff happens, allowing flash floods to occur.
Deforestation decreases how much water is absorbed by the soil, the water that doesn't seep into the soil will start to stack up to create floods.
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Different snow patterns are occurring all over the country.
-With spring coming most of the snow is melting to increase the amount of floods and it is hard to tell where the floods are going to occur.
The air temperature is rising near the surface.
- This causes snow to melt very quickly and with lots of snow melting at once it creates floods or flash floods.
Resources
"Why Do Floods Happen?" Workers' Liberty. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Mar. 2013.
"Climate Change Threatens Health: Flooding." NRDC:. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Mar. 2013.
"Why Do Floods Happen?" Workers' Liberty. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Mar. 2013.