Despite emergent lines of thinking, there was no naturalist consensus on the forest cover-rainfall debate prior to the first quarter of the nineteenth century.
For decades, Mr. Hurley said, neighbors have watched anxiously during heavy rainfalls, debating just when to move items upstairs in case of flooding.
How will rainfall patterns shift?
That resource is tied to rainfall.
This article traces the history of scientific ideas connecting forest cover with rainfall to inform ongoing debates about whether forests are net users or producers of water in the hydrological cycle.
The degree to which forests encourage rainfall is a matter of considerable debate.
A topic open to debate is whether that change takes place because rainfall becomes more intense, or because it rains more often, or a combination of both.
Such a debate is based on the assumption that the underlying circulation structure and rainfall characteristics are unchanged.
Projections of Amazon dieback are still much debated, but should countries like Argentina, dependent on the forest for their rainfall, really take the chance?
Debates continue on whether global warming has any role on the changing rainfall patterns around the world, but soot and urban smog pollution have also been blamed for disrupting the south Asian monsoon.
The mutual annoyance that seemed evident at the Republican debates has been reimagined, in fiction, as crackling sexual tension, in such stories as "Of Rainfall and Fluffy Bathrobes," by StrangelyWonderful, and "En Español, si quieres," by marcorubio.
