but, you seem to miss the facts - there are more extreme weather events now
the article was about mould ------------- you get mould from damp. That doesn't mean you need floods --------------
you might in fact get less floods but an increased rainfall ------- for a variety of reasons
you can mitigate flood damage - you can't stop rain ------------ and rain creates moisture and moisture creates mould - make sense??
don't just look at floods ------
Extreme rainfall events are increasing in frequency and intensity across parts of Australia over the past 200 years, driven by climate change and global warming.[1][4]
## Key Points
- Extreme rainfall events with high return intervals (e.g. 1-in-100 year events) are becoming more frequent and intense across Australia, consistent with climate change projections.[1]
- For every 1°C of global warming, rainfall intensities are increasing by around 7%, implying about 10% more intense rainfall in Australia which has warmed by 1.5°C so far.[1]
- The frequency of 50-year return interval (RI) extreme rainfall events is increasing by up to 100%, while 200-year RI events are increasing by up to 200% in some regions of Australia.[4]
- Short-duration extreme rainfall from thunderstorms is increasing at a faster rate than the 7% per 1°C of warming, due to the added heat released from condensation supercharging storm systems.[5]
- Climate change is intensifying the hydrological cycle, allowing the atmosphere to hold more moisture and leading to more intense rainfall, particularly for the most extreme events.[1][4][5]
- While individual extreme events cannot be directly attributed to climate change, the increasing trend in frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall across Australia is clearly linked to global warming caused by human activities.[1][5]
So in summary, observational data and climate modeling studies provide strong evidence that the most extreme rainfall events, which can lead to flooding, are becoming more common and more intense across Australia over at least the past few decades, driven primarily by human-caused climate change.[1][4][5]
