Australian "experts": Remember when it wasn't raining, and we told you that CO2 causes lack of rain? Now that it's raining too much, we just remembered that CO2 causes too much rain

Experts predict surge in floods

SPORTS fields, car parks and parklands will be important assets; houses will have walls that open, and some people might need to lose their water views to prepare for bigger, more frequent floods due to global warming, according to experts contacted by the Herald.

...There is consensus in the scientific literature that ''the flooding that happens on small urban type of catchments, which is a result of short rainfall bursts, is going up, because convection is intensifying'', Professor Ashish Sharma, an Australian Research Council future fellow in the school of civil and environmental engineering at the University of NSW, said.

He said it was ''99 per cent sure'' that the cause was global warming. A warmer atmosphere holds more water and releases it in shorter bursts, as seen in the tropics, Professor Sharma said.