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We know that humanity’s carbon footprint has shifted the baseline conditions of the climate, the context in which every weather event takes place. But trying to isolate the human influence from everything else that is going on can be really hard, especially for hurricanes, or what scientists call “tropical cyclones.”
They’re super complex and the quality of the historical data we have for them isn’t great. We do have physics, though. Hurricanes are driven by the transfer of heat from the sea to the air through evaporation. The storm’s maximum possible wind speed, or its potential intensity, depends in part on how warm the ocean is – and of course, we’re warming the ocean.
So researchers expect intense tropical cyclones to become frequent if we continue to warm the planet.
The hurricanes of the future will also be wetter. So coastal cities will face freshwater flooding from the sky paired with storm surge from the sea, which is higher now because we are also causing sea levels to rise. And that trend of wetter storms isn’t just for hurricanes. Heavy precipitation events from other types of storms have been increasing in The US and should continue to increase across the country. Even in places that might see less rain over the whole year, they’ll get more days with really heavy precipitation.
This comes down to basic physics too: warmer air can take up more water before it dumps it back down on us. All of this means global warming worsens floods like the kind that hit Houston.
But it’s not our destiny to hurt ourselves like this. It depends on what we choose to do now. We could rethink our infrastructure and regulations to minimize the damage, but unless we also start cutting our carbon emissions and shifting the world to clean energy, it’s just going to get worse.
Sources:
Peter Sinclair: https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/author/psinclair/
IPCC AR5: https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_Chapter14_FINAL.pdf
National Climate Assessment: http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/our-changing-climate/heavy-downpours-increasing
NOAA/EPA https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-sea-surface-temperature
https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-sea-level
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AJ here!
If politicians laugh at a scientist because of Climate change, we'll laugh at THEM after their house is flooded or destroyed by hurricane.
Watched this in geography
1/700 people watching this video deny climate change's real effects.
I am turning into Dababy
Imperial > metric. It’s not our fault you guys wanted to go out and be hippies with the new hip stuff.
Whats the solution?
Nothing is gonna effect us Floridians, because we have been hit so many times that we are so used to it
So it makes hurricanes worse guess what people us in the Philippines are typhoons are becoming nightmarish than terrifying!
strongest hurricane to ever make landfall , 1935 Keys hurricane ; worst hurricane to hit New England 1938 hurricane ; deadliest disaster in US history , Galveston hurricane of 1900 . four tropical cyclones hit California in 1939 . your video is junk science fantasy .
Climate Change = Weather Modification…. Its Weaponized!
Worst (wind speeds, pressure, storm surge) 12 hurricanes in N American history ALL happened prior to 1992, half prior to 1960. More expensive, catastrophic? Yup, but that’s cuz of more population and development, not climate change. According to science, hurricane frequency and severity has been LESS over last 30 years. Hmmm.
Imagine shooting yourself in the foot and calling it progress.
The world needs Clean Energy but also good, clean, safe and cheap Mass Public Transportation.
Rentals, Taxis, Buses, Trams, Coaches, Ride shares, Trains and even Bicycles should be the Future.
The age of Mass Car Ownership has to end if we are to survive; Electric cars are NOT the whole answer.
EVs pollute as well, in manufacture and use. What, for example, is going to happen to all the trillions of old batteries?
cope
sadly our economical system was based upon fossil fuels haha, good luck getting greedy people to stop being greedy.
New study just in. Pollution causes fewer hurricanes. Science at work!!!!
Climate change
It's not climate change it's the 12 Gods judgment!
Climate change would also weaken high pressures, and much less storms would hit land, but they don’t tell you that
9/1/2022 -there are no named storms to date in the Atlantic. 1st time since 1941, I guess the globe is cooling now?
this is such a lie wow can't beleive you did this
Who’s here after hurricane Ian?
Hurricanes ARENT WORSE. The ONLY THING THAT IS WORSE IS ECONOMIC DAMAGE.. because there's more people and stuff in Hurricane regions. This is totally bunk data brought to us by the agency paid to be climate change liars
This entire video is a perfect example of circular reasoning. It ASSUMES that warming is caused by humans — not the trend of coming out of the Little Ice Age, which we have no control over. They also ignore the fact that hurricanes have become less frequent over the last 100 years.
I remember when I was a kid in the 70s and there were only maybe a hurricane every. 10 years or so. And the storms only had 100 to 150 mph winds and a couple inches of rain. Now there’s hurricanes every year the winds are now 5,000 mph and it rains 40” inches. Global warming people.
The earths climate has been stable throughout history til now. We’re causing it. Everyone who believes in this man made global warming stop using utilities at your home. Do not use gas or electric vehicles put your money where your mouth is. Then I’ll take you serious.
lies
Nothing is different between hurricanes of 1960s and now… What are they talking about
Show us where these radical climate conditions were for this hurricane that were any more different than any other hurricane
Even NOAA says there is not enough evidence to say hurricane intensity and frequency is out of natural variability.
Great Job!
More freshwater ))))
It's sad that people are blaming disasters on nonsense fact there is no climate emergency
What caused the Great Hurricane of 1780?
man made climate change using the HAARP system creates very intense hurricane as well as directing the hurricane.
Hummm things are not matching here.
Scam
It’s getting hot in here
The crowd that does not recognize change in climate are the alarmists. Their view is that climate is made by man. The other side knows that over periods of time climate can trend in a certain way & it's natural. Over lengthy periods of time the climate has changed because of plate tectonics & Milankovich Cycles.
But for North America 2023 only had 2 hurricanes that hit the US & just a couple more in 2022. In spite of very hot summers. This means that mankind is not in charge.
6 years later, it’s way worse. Hurricane Otis just went from a tropical storm to cat 5 in like three hours. Our Ocean heat sink is running out of space to store the heat.
climate change is real IM seeing it in my state falls are getting warmer and our winters are shorter and warmer but people wont believe it until its too late
If climate change was driving it our worst hurricanes wouldn't have been prior to 1954@
Everyone could help reduce the effects of global warming by going plant-based and not funding animal agriculture. Animal agriculture is responsible for 18% of carbon emissions, is the number one cause of deforestation, and uses 70% of our available freshwater. You can do something right now to help.
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TURN off your GD ICE Cars and TRUCKS>
Business as usual mentality will only become suicidal.
They got worse. LIKE WAAAY WORSE
This didn’t age well 😢
It pretty much boils down to how corrupted government is and no one trusts our government. I think that’s why you have a lot of pushback.