Is Climate Change Affecting Future Hurricanes? Recent Discovery Says It Calms Them
It is more usual to hear or read from various research materials that climate change can make hurricanes wilder and even make it more violent. However, latest study shows that climate change can actually do the exact opposite: it can certainly calm the hurricanes instead.
Modern computer simulations show that the presence of global warming can steer the strong winds far from the East Coast and directed more towards the Atlantic Ocean when the next century comes in. The said study made suggestions that systems which forced past hurricanes like Sandy to New York and New Jersey are not likely to happen anymore.
There were other scientists though like meteorologist Elizabeth Barnes from the Colorado State University that computer programs being used for the simulations still has its own glitches.
Other meteorologist like Jennifer Francis from Rutgers University second the motion, emphasising that such technology can help people understand the basics of climate change first. However, the accuracy percentage of its results is still vague.
A meteorology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kerry Emmanuel, explained that to change the pattern of direction is just a small part of the entire problem of how the hurricane may change where it is headed. He added that other factors to be considered include the number of times a storm has formed, its frequency and its intensity level. Hence, drawing conclusions can be risky.
With the question of many people whether hurricanes will become more destructive and more intense in the coming years, then the answer remains unclear too. Reports from the US Climate Change Science Program together with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change state that it is too early to predict future trends about climate change and hurricanes, but it is the amount and intensity of rainfall is what's sure to go higher through the years.