Question

Scientist who study climate changes are concerned that global warming may increase the frequency or intensity of tropical cyclones. What predicted effect of global warming would increase the destructive power of hurricans?

Answer 1

Global warming and hurricanes

Explanation:

Global warming and climate change lead to erratic and more destructive patterns in natural disasters like hurricanes.

Increasing global temperature has also increased the frequency of highly devastating major hurricanes. The major hurricanes which occurred once in many years or even once in a century, now occurs very frequently like once in a decade or less.

Global warming increases the sea surface temperature which in turn increases the sea level. This piling of water leads to storm surges along coastal lands.

With increasing sea surface temperature and high humidity, increases the hurricane intensity. Further, increased temperature leads to high wind at varying altitude over the sea surfaces which causes vertical wind shear that can worsen the hurricane effects.