I listened with interest to Cross Country Check-up on CBC Radio May 15, regarding the flooding problems in the Manitoba plains, which are said to be the worst in three centuries.
Some callers mentioned climate change as a contributing cause, but there was one thing about climate change that I didn’t hear mentioned. That one very important point I remember hearing over a year ago, is that with a rise in average air temperature globally, the ability of the warmer air to hold moisture had increased about five percent. This, as I see it, accounts for probably most of the wide-spread flooding over much of the world’s best farmland.
Along with climate change, weather patterns seemed to have changed, bringing this warmer moist air up to the southern and eastern provinces.
I don’t wish to prophesize more bad news, but if I had written this letter a year ago, I was already suspecting that what has happened now was even highly possible. What might the future hold?
Lester Jorgenson,Abbey, Sask.
