On average the global precipitation increases in a warmer climate.

As the climate gets warmer, we're going to feel these effects more and more strongly.

It's a train that's going downhill; that is something that people don't understand. For anything to happen, it's going to have to take the public really being concerned about this problem.

Even if you could stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at present day levels, the system has a certain amount of thermal inertia and would take several more decades to stabilize. You'd have to really decrease the rate that you're putting stuff in the atmosphere to get the concentrations to level out and that'll probably be fairly difficult politically.

The models show most areas around the world will experience more intense precipitation for a given storm during this century.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.