{"id":27679,"date":"2018-11-16T14:06:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/?p=27679"},"modified":"2022-03-16T10:02:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:02:55","slug":"climate-change-causing-destructive-wetter-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/climate-change-causing-destructive-wetter-hurricanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Is Causing More Destructive, Wetter Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of the most destructive, devastating hurricanes in recent years were <\/span>intensified by climate change<\/span><\/a>, researchers from <\/span>the Department of Energy\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory <\/span>find. <\/span><\/p>\n

Their supercomputer simulations proved that climate change increased the amount of rainfall in hurricanes Katrina, Irma and Maria by 5-10 percent. <\/span><\/p>\n

And the future looks bleak. If humans don\u2019t slow down fossil fuel emissions, increased warming could cause hurricane rainfall to rise by 15-35 percent and boost hurricane wind speeds by up to 29 miles per hour. <\/span><\/p>\n

“We’re already starting to see anthropogenic factors influencing tropical cyclone rainfall,” <\/span>Christina Patricola<\/span><\/a>, a scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Earth and Environmental Sciences Area and lead author of the study, said in a statement. <\/span><\/p>\n

“And our simulations strongly indicate that as time goes on we can expect to see even greater increases in rainfall,” she continued.<\/span><\/p>\n

Four of the five <\/span>costliest hurricanes<\/span><\/a> in U.S. history occurred in the past six years. <\/span><\/p>\n

This research should serve as a wakeup call. If humans fail to switch to renewable energy, hurricanes will only become more destructive, deadly and expensive. <\/span><\/p>\n

The study<\/b><\/h2>\n

The researchers ran high-resolution climate simulations of 15 tropical cyclones — or hurricanes, the term used in the Atlantic — that have occurred around the world in the past 10 years. They tested how the storms would react to different air and ocean temperatures, humidity and greenhouse gas concentrations. <\/span><\/p>\n

The simulations used in this study are more trustworthy than past, observation-based techniques used to test the impact of climate change on hurricanes.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>“It is difficult to unravel how climate change may be influencing tropical cyclones using observations alone because records before the satellite-era are incomplete and natural variability in tropical cyclones is large,” Patricola said in a statement.<\/span>
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The <\/span>study<\/span><\/a> was split into two parts. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the first, the researchers used the simulations to compare and contrast the same storm under different circumstances. <\/span><\/p>\n

For example, the researchers modeled Hurricane Katrina in a pre-industrial climate and compared it to a model of the storm under current climate conditions. This way, they could determine how much of an impact climate change has had.<\/span><\/p>\n