(no subject)
As the oceans get warmer, stroms get stronger. In 2004, Florida was hit by four unusal powerful hurricanes.
A growing number of new scientific studies are confirming that warmer water in the top layer of the ocean can drive more convection energy to fuel more powerful hurricanes.
There is less agreement among scientists about the relationship between the total number of hurricanes each year and global warming-because a multi decade natural pattern has a powerful influence on hurricane frequency. But there is now a strong, new emerging consensus that global warming is indeed linked to a significant increase in both the duration and intensity of hurricanes.
Brand new evidence is causing some scientists to assert that global warming is even leading to an increased frequency of hurricanes, overwhelming the variablity in frequency long understood to be part of natural deep-current cycles.
As the United States was being hit by numerous large hurricanes in 2004 , Japan's weather didnt get as much attention in the Western media.
Yet that same year, Japan set an all time record for typhoons. The previous record was seven. In 2004, 10 typhoons hit Japan. Typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones are all the same weather phenomena, depending on the ocean in which they originate. In the spring of 2006, Australia was hit by several unusually strong, Catagory five cyclones, including Cyclone Monica, the strongest cyclone ever measured, off the coast of Australia- stronger then Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, or Wilma.
The science textbook had to be rewritten in 2004. They use to say, " It's impossible to have hurricanes in the South Atlantic." But that year, for the first time ever, a hurricane hit Brazil. (Hurricane Catarina)
-Excerpt from An Inconvenient Truth
A growing number of new scientific studies are confirming that warmer water in the top layer of the ocean can drive more convection energy to fuel more powerful hurricanes.
There is less agreement among scientists about the relationship between the total number of hurricanes each year and global warming-because a multi decade natural pattern has a powerful influence on hurricane frequency. But there is now a strong, new emerging consensus that global warming is indeed linked to a significant increase in both the duration and intensity of hurricanes.
Brand new evidence is causing some scientists to assert that global warming is even leading to an increased frequency of hurricanes, overwhelming the variablity in frequency long understood to be part of natural deep-current cycles.
As the United States was being hit by numerous large hurricanes in 2004 , Japan's weather didnt get as much attention in the Western media.
Yet that same year, Japan set an all time record for typhoons. The previous record was seven. In 2004, 10 typhoons hit Japan. Typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones are all the same weather phenomena, depending on the ocean in which they originate. In the spring of 2006, Australia was hit by several unusually strong, Catagory five cyclones, including Cyclone Monica, the strongest cyclone ever measured, off the coast of Australia- stronger then Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, or Wilma.
The science textbook had to be rewritten in 2004. They use to say, " It's impossible to have hurricanes in the South Atlantic." But that year, for the first time ever, a hurricane hit Brazil. (Hurricane Catarina)
-Excerpt from An Inconvenient Truth