“Rivers of heaven” will cause deadly floods on the planet

Giant “rivers of heaven” – which will carry 15 times larger quantity of water than that of the River Mississippi – can lead to…
a substantial elimination of the human species, causing the worst floods that it has known until today, the world, according to new research.
Scientists even warn that this situation may deteriorate due to climate change.
In particular, they found that 97 to 100% of a particular species of oysters (Olympia oysters) in the northern part of the San Francisco bay died in 2011, when the region was hit by the dramatic rainfall caused by the “rivers of air”. These describe only half of the total destruction caused by the annual rainfall, with a duration of 10 to 15 days, in California.
The “rivers of air” are also associated with the ten largest floods that occurred in Britain from the 1970s.
As long as the ambient air becomes warmer so maximise the ability to retain more water, so one of the consequences of climate change is increased rainfall in some parts of the planet.
This research first examined the biological consequences that will occur when the “rivers of air” will cover a number of areas.
The researcher Brian Cheng of the university of California said: “All these indicate how extreme weather events could affect coastal ecosystems”.
“The oysters play an important role in the formation and enhance biodiversity, but the specific type is only an indication of what could happen because of climate change, which might be an obstacle for the restoration of the oyster in the bay of San Francisco”.
The oysters had thrived in the park China Camp State before the hit the showers, as there were about 3,000 of them per square meter.
The researchers discovered that the almost total destruction probably caused by the inflow of a large amount of fresh water, which diluted the content of salt, destroying the ecosystem of the oysters.
Overall, 20 clouds of water caused precipitation in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the waters of which ended up in rivers and then the sea the period between October 2010 and September 2011.
Three of them are responsible for the destruction of the oyster. A document of the Royal Astronomical society warned that the problem is not only about the oysters.
“In case of mass events mortality, can also occur multiple effects throughout the biological community,” mentioned the particular document.
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