Climate Extreme Trends and Why!

Climate extremes have always been part of the global and regional weather systems. The historical work of J. Buisman with title (in Dutch) Thousand year weather, wind and water in the low lands confirms this. Nevertheless, climate extremes, such as floods, storms and hurricanes seem to intensify. But why? The answer is not simply given by global or regional warming, but has to be found else in the double greenhouse effect.This double greenhouse effect was demonstrated for 75...
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Climate extremes have always been part of the global and regional weather systems. The historical work of J. Buisman with title (in Dutch) Thousand year weather, wind and water in the low lands confirms this. Nevertheless, climate extremes, such as floods, storms and hurricanes seem to intensify. But why? The answer is not simply given by global or regional warming, but has to be found else in the double greenhouse effect.This double greenhouse effect was demonstrated for 75 atmospheric temperature profile trends between 0 and 27 km altitude from Spitsbergen to Antarctica. The atmosphere warms up at low and very high altitudes, but cools down in between in the stratosphere. Due to an increased density gradient, low pressure weather systems are intensified. An exception is Antarctica, where only warming occurs until high altitudes due to absence of infrared reflection by the ice surface.Rainfall extremes, as investigated for 187 continental stations (the oldest recorded since 1709), happen with a frequency of twice per decade and are therefore to be qualified as "normal". The observed trends for higher or lower annual precipitations seem to be stable and are subsequently independent of any greenhouse effect. The same is valid for the discharge at worldwide 180 river stations.In conclusion, additional climate extremes will be encountered in regions which are already sensitive to extreme climate variations. This will continue as long as fossil fuel will produce greenhouse gases. Additionally various factors play a role, such as sea level,