Climate Emergency Forum Podcast
The Global Water Cycle Is Failing
Sep 27, 202626 min
The discussion examines how human-caused warming is destabilizing the global water cycle, creating a world in which water is increasingly “too much, too little, or too unsafe.” Warmer air holds more water vapour and accelerates evaporation, adding energy to the atmosphere that can intensify torrential rainfall, storms, and flooding while leaving other regions vulnerable to prolonged drought. Recent reports and satellite observations are cited to show declining river flows, depleted land-water storage, shrinking glaciers, dry soils, and growing freshwater stress across much of the world.
