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Study shows more rainy days could dampen economic growth

by admineconai January 13, 2022
written by admineconai January 13, 2022
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New research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research has shown that more rainy days and extreme rainfall likely will hurt global economies.

The analysis, conducted by a team of scientists who examined 40 years of data in more than 1,500 regions across the globe, shows that as wet days go up, economic growth goes down.

More rainfall is occurring as the planet warms because warm air holds more water vapor. But while global precipitation trends vary wildly and are extremely complex because of factors including geography and terrain, extreme precipitation is increasing — it’s widely accepted by many climate scientists that regions already prone to intense rainfall events will see them more frequently.

Leonie Wenz, a lead scientist said that it is about prosperity — and ultimately about people’s jobs. “Economies across the world are slowed down by more wet days and extreme daily rainfall, an important insight that adds to our growing understanding of the true costs of climate change,” he said.

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Wenz explained that from previous work, flooding associated with extreme rainfall can damage infrastructure, which is critical to economic productivity, and cause local disruptions to production.

He noted that the new findings also suggest everyday disruptions caused by more rain will have “a disruptive effect on businesses, manufacturing, transportation.”

“Intensified daily rainfall turns out to be bad, especially for wealthy, industrialized countries like the U.S., Japan or Germany,” Wenz said. “But smaller, more agrarian economies can see some benefits”.
According to Anders Leverman, a co-author of a study, “It’s rather the climate shocks from weather extremes that threaten our way of life than the gradual changes — by destabilizing our climate, we harm our economies”.

Stamford University researcher Frances Voigt Davenport was also quoted as saying that some of those extremes can include devastating flooding that has massive consequences.

“We’re seeing that climate change increases extreme precipitation and makes the most extreme events bigger,” Davenport said, adding that nearly one-third of U.S. flood damage from 1988 to 2017 — costing roughly $73 billion — resulted from long-term changes in precipitation.

It is worthy to note that other recent extreme rainfall events have resulted from tropical cyclones or severe weather outbreaks, which cost the U.S. some $101 billion last year. Among the 10 costliest events from extreme rainfall, tropical cyclones and severe weather in the U.S., nine have happened since 2004.

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