It i said that Global Warming is affecting our oceans today causing Hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones. The number of severe hurricanes has doubled worldwide even though the total number of hurricanes has dropped over the last 35 years, a new study finds. The increase in major storms like Katrina coincides with a global increase of sea surface temperatures, which scientists say is an effect of global warming. The possible relationship between global warming and hurricane strength has been a topic of controversy for years.
New study supports that in July, in which climatologist Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showed for the first time that major storms in both the Atlantic and the Pacific since the 1970s have increased in duration and intensity by about 50 percent.
When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005 it become one of the deadliest hurricane and costliest hurricanes in recorded history. She also intensified the global warming debate as scientists pointed towards her gales as evidence of global warming’s destruction. Even before Hurricane Katrina hit, scientists had been predicting an increase in strong hurricanes.
How are Hurricanes being formed you may ask? Mark Henderson connects the increase in hurricanes to global warming by noting that hurricanes need warm air to form and that ocean surface temperatures have increased by 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit (0.5 C) over the past 35 years.
If we do not stop the green gases which are causing global warming temperature to increase we may have a worst hurricane the hurricane Katrina.
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