Missouri farmers will not be surprised to hear that 2019 was one of the wettest on record, and some experts predict the impacts of climate change on agriculture will only get worse. Karin Gleason is a climate scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She says all data indicate that extreme weather events such as last year’s floods, along with periods of prolonged drought, are here to stay. In Missouri, one-point-two million acres of land were affected by flooding in 2019.
In just the past ten years, major flooding in the U-S resulted in losses of at least 40-billion dollars. Gleason says extreme precipitation events are becoming heavier and more frequent. She explains that as global temperatures rise, more water evaporates from the land and oceans, leading to stronger downpours which increase the likelihood of flooding.
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