Arctic Warming and Climate Change = More Dangerous Hurricanes
Climate effect of global warming… fact or fiction?
What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic. what does this mean to you? Researchers say Hurricane Harvey, which hit the entire state of Texas, is the kind of extreme storm we’ll see more of in a warming world. Epic rainfall rates and rising storm surges have caused catastrophic damage in the great state of Texas.
Using models to investigate the links between climate change and extreme weather
No single cause for killer storms can ever be identified. Extreme events always bring together multiple factors at the same time. There is a lot of debate within the scientific community regarding climate change and extreme weather. But it is worth noting the fact that the attribution of extreme weather to global warming is based on the use of models to try to recreate historical weather records.
A weather model, also known as numerical weather prediction, is a complex algorithm run by supercomputers to try to predict future weather. Different models and assumptions give different answers. But many see the attribution as a start to quantify, for example, the increased risk of extreme rainfall events along, say, the Gulf Coast due to the Arctic and global warming.
In other words, climate science will never be able to predict the weather without error, but by identifying the relevant data for our always populated, polluted, windy, and rainy planet, it’s up to us to take action and use the data to pay attention. your perceptions. Will these extreme weather conditions get worse as global climate change continues?
To what extent does climate change affect hurricanes?
Is it little or a lot? The degree of impact of climate change on hurricanes is not defined. People naturally want to know “why” or “how” a catastrophic storm landed in their neighborhood. And if possible, people would like to know if there is anything they can do to minimize future chances of it happening.
This debate is still unresolved, but many leading researchers have theories that they don’t hesitate to share with an inquiring public. There is room for our knowledge to grow and for new tools, such as weather attribution, to help us manage future risks. What can be done in the future to address future risks? How does renewable energy impact the negative effects of global warming?
Benefits of using renewable energy
Renewable energy (wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric and biomass) provides substantial benefits for our climate, our health and our economy. Human activity is overloading our atmosphere with carbon dioxide and other global warming emissions, which trap heat, steadily increasing the temperature of the planet, and creating significant and damaging impacts on our health, our environment, and our climate.
Increasing the supply of renewable energy would allow us to replace carbon-intensive energy sources and significantly reduce America’s global warming emissions, which cause, among many, negative effects on our environment, such as extreme weather.
Climate change made Hurricane Harvey more dangerous
It’s hard to draw a clear connection between killer hurricanes and global warming, but there is a common school of thought that theorizes that there is, in fact, a direct connection between past killer hurricanes Sandy and Harvey and climate change.
Charles H. Greune, a professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University, said “what happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic,” he said in a statement Wednesday. “Like Superstorm Sandy, Arctic warming likely played a major role in making Hurricane Harvey such an extreme deadly storm.”
Greene went a step further by identifying how climate change influenced both:
- the formation of the storm
- and the path he took
Two storms that resembled each other’s destructive path, Hurricanes Sandy and Harvey, similarly persisted. Instead of drifting over the ocean like most late-season hurricanes do, these storms line up in mostly populated urban areas.
and then stagnated, pouring billions of gallons of water into the areasresulting in tremendous property damage and loss of life.
Maddie Stone, who has a doctorate in earth and environmental sciences, said climate change or “probably” made Harvey worse.
Factors that make hurricanes more dangerous:
We know that warming sea surface and air temperatures affect storms and produce more extreme precipitation. In fact, the world’s heaviest downpours have become more extreme.
Global warming factors that can affect hurricanes:
- Rapid sea level rise: The first global warming factor that can make hurricanes more dangerous is the rapid rise in sea level in the maritime region of, for example, Texas and New Jersey, making areas more prone to flooding.
- Rising temperatures – The second factor is the rising temperatures in the region resulting in more moisture in the atmosphere, bringing more rain to the regions.
- Global warming may also have contributed to:
- a deep layer of warm water that feeds the hurricane as it intensified near the coast
- subtropical high pressure systems – It is believed that this phenomenon possibly stopped extreme hurricanes near the coast with subtropical high pressure systems that keep a weather system in the middle and cause their path to slow down or stop.
Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, believes that Harvey was “a little more intense, bigger and longer lasting” than it would have been in the absence of climate change.
The new norm, killer storms?
Many researchers agree that deadly storms like Sandy and Harvey are the “new normal” as greenhouse gases raise sea levels, leading to higher storm surges, which in turn leads to higher of precipitation.
Hurricane Harvey and its remnants have quickly become one of the worst natural disasters in US history. The unprecedented duration and intensity of the storm has sparked a heated debate about how much is due to climate change. The short answer is that we really don’t know, yet. But trying to answer that question will help us better prepare for the future.