What happens to rainbows as the planet’s climate changes
Written by ABC AUDIO on November 1, 2022
Climate change and its evolving impacts are touching all aspects of what it means to be human, but now there’s a new question about life on a changing planet: What happens to the rainbows?
The ability to see a rainbow depends on changing precipitation rates, cloud cover, and other conditions?the sun angle and time of day, the elevation of the land?that make them possible. While they’re not critical to sustaining life on earth, rainbows are important enough to human experience that researchers identify their value in terms of cultural ecosystem services.
“Rainbows have been part of the lived human experience throughout history and around the world and can also be found in arts, literature, music, films, folklore, religion, and mythology,” says a team of scientists that set out to understand what happens to the phenomenon of rainbows as the climate changes. Their peer-reviewed work was published in the journal Global Environmental Change. dfh fdh dBlack Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam Black Adam
