{"id":16988,"date":"2024-11-21T19:02:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T20:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16988"},"modified":"2024-11-21T20:27:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T20:27:54","slug":"landslides-are-a-growing-climate-threat-what-do-we-know-about-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16988","title":{"rendered":"Landslides Are a Growing Climate Threat. What Do We Know About Them?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Deadly landslides are becoming more common and large amounts of rain are a known trigger. An atmospheric river is dumping rain out West. What you should know about your risk.<\/p>\n

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A storm of heavy rain, snow, and strong winds brought dangerous conditions to the Pacific Northwest this week. By Friday, up to 16 inches of rain<\/a> could inundate Northern California.<\/p>\n

The storm is what\u2019s known as an atmospheric river<\/a>, a long narrow strip heavy with moisture that slam into the mountains of the West Coast and dumps out prodigious amounts of rain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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While scientists haven\u2019t concluded whether atmospheric rivers are increasing because of climate change, a warmer atmosphere, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, can hold more moisture, which can lead to increased extreme rain events. That increase in extreme rain events has likely caused more landslides, according to experts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Fast-moving landslides called debris flows, which are mud and rock-laden torrents, are more common on land that has recently, and severely, burned, like wildfire-scarred regions. July\u2019s Park Fire<\/a>. the fourth largest fire in California history, happened in a region that could see up to 12 inches of rain<\/a> and remains under a flood watch until Saturday morning, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n

So far, about a dozen small landslides<\/a>, including one that resulted in a car wreck, have been reported in Northern California.<\/p>\n

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Deadly landslides are becoming more common and large amounts of rain are a known trigger. An atmospheric river is dumping rain out West. What you should know about your risk.A storm of heavy rain, snow, and strong winds brought dangerous conditions to the Pacific Northwest this week. By Friday, up to 16 inches of rain could inundate Northern California.The storm is what\u2019s known as an atmospheric river, a long narrow strip heavy with moisture that slam into the mountains of the West Coast and dumps out prodigious amounts of rain.While scientists haven\u2019t concluded whether atmospheric rivers are increasing because of climate change, a warmer atmosphere, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, can hold more moisture, which can lead to increased extreme rain events. That increase in extreme rain events has likely caused more landslides, according to experts.Fast-moving landslides called debris flows, which are mud and rock-laden torrents, are more common on land that has recently, and severely, burned, like wildfire-scarred regions. July\u2019s Park Fire. the fourth largest fire in California history, happened in a region that could see up to 12 inches of rain and remains under a flood watch until Saturday morning, according to the National Weather Service.So far, about a dozen small landslides, including one that resulted in a car wreck, have been reported in Northern California.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16990,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16991,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988\/revisions\/16991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}