Telegraph (UK): Predictions that our warming world will become a wetter place have been confirmed by a study which suggests that extreme rainstorms will rise by more than 10 per cent by the year 2050. For some time, computer models of the global climate have predicted that global warming will increase the intensity of rainfall and it is these extremes, linked with landslides and flooding, that are among the major impacts. Woman walking in heavy rain: extreme rainstorms will increase by 10 per …