https://phys.org/news/2017-02-likelihood-dangerous-climate-thresholds.html

We know flooding will be a major problem caused by AGW:

Marine flooding, caused both by land ice melting and increasing warmth causing the oceans to increase in volume. A small increase in sea level means floods can reach inland further. Just ask those living in New York after hurricane Sandy.

Riverine/lacustrine flooding, caused by increasing evaporation/precipitation. Certainly have had floods down the east coast of Australia!

The man on the land is already feeling the impact of AGW on his land and the crops they can grow. One Landline program a wheat farmer was describing how they have had to change the variety of wheat he grew.

As a member of the Saltram’s No1 club I have attended two open days at the winery. They are pulling vines on the Barossa Valley floor and replacing them with more heat tolerant Italian varieties: Fiano etc. Other wineries now feature wines from other Italian grape varieties, Pino grigio etc. Another problem the Saltram chief winemaker and the viticulturalist mentioned, and this is also mentioned in programs like Landline or other good science programs, is that different varieties of grapes reach harvest closer and closer together, as do grapes grown in different locations (valley floor, escarpment and Eden Valley in the case of Saltrams.) This makes winemaking very difficult, varieties arriving at the crusher at short and shortening intervals.

So the better the models become the better can the man on the land, the hydrlogical engineers etc plan for coping with the effects of climate change.

Jovial Monk wrote on Feb 25^th, 2017 at 9:46am:



And of course that has never happened before.