Winter rainfall increasing per degree of global warming, experts warn

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Maynooth University's ICARUS Climate Research Centre found there is clear evidence humans are changing Ireland’s climate

The rise in rainfall in Ireland is directly connected to increasing degrees of global warming, a new study on climate change has found.found there is clear evidence humans are changing Ireland’s climate, and there is particular need for climate adaptation when it comes to flooding.

Professor Conor Murphy, who led the study, said this increase in the east is greater than the global average. “With continued warming, such increases in winter precipitation would have substantial consequences for fluvial and groundwater flooding, even if global temperature increase is maintained at no more than 2 degrees,” the study said.

 

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