
Climate change is altering the quantity of water vapour in the air, and it’s throwing nature off-balance. Image: Unsplash/Inge Maria
- There are two types of humidity: relative, or saturation, and specific, or the amount of water vapour in the air.
- Scientists have found specific humidity has increased, while relative humidity over many regions has declined.
- Changes in humidity have substantial knock-on impacts at both the global and local level, including on the strength and frequency of wildfires.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/12/climate-change-humidity-paradox/