A graph showing relative humidity declines over the continents developing a robust negative trend since the 2000s. In 2024 till January 2025 we had again highly negative values near record levels.
The drying of continents supports exceptional high temperatures, flash droughts, higher rates of wind and water erosion (floods hitting parched out landscapes), or that dryness is the main metric for large wildfires to become possible.
In other words models underestimating the drying trend of the continents do not see the collapse of the terrestrial carbon sink coming that involves lots of other knock on effects.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/january-2025-warmest-january-and-lowest-arctic-sea-ice-extent-month?utm_source=socialmedia&utm_medium=bs&utm_campaign=january-2025-warmest-january-and-lowest-arctic-sea-ice-extent-month
Just for the record: this model error is massive!
Here graph showing the latest data on relative humidity over land showing that accelerating surface warming of the oceans comes with massive knock on effects...
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