Briana's Blog!: The Storm Shall Rise With The Temperature.

    Heat waves, hurricanes, earth quakes, volcanoes, tsunami's, and many more natural disasters happen on our planet today. In nature, shifts in the weather or temperature may cause these disasters to happen more frequently. Today, we are faced with the problem of global warming. The overall increase of earth's temperature has a direct link with these disasters. In this blog post, I will discuss the natural disaster of a hurricane.
A hurricane is a violet, cyclonic, tropical storm that brings an abundance of rain fall, as well as high winds. ("Hurricane"). The wind speed of the storm could excess to up to 72 miles per hour, much faster than you can legally drive down the high way. Hurricanes are important because they significantly create tons of damage to an area, as well as bring many deaths. Hurricanes are emotionally, physically, and economically damaging. They are mostly local to the southern coast of America, in places like the Gulf of Mexico, or the Caribbean Sea. The Atlantic Hurricane season starts June 1st and ends November 30th. During these months, citizens and scientist must be on high alert for one of these disasters.
   However, global warming has been around since the industrial revolution. It is a growing phenomenon and is starting to become more recognized/important today. The climate changing and becoming warmer has a direct correlation with hurricanes. Hurricanes gain their speeds and energy from warm water. Therefor, the increase in the hurricane activity is linked to the warmer ocean temperatures. Scientist project that hurricanes intensity and frequency will continue to expand along with earth/ocean temperature rising. Also, because the ice glaciers are melting, the sea level is rising. This could lead to very severe flooding the next time a storm approaches. According to the International Panel on Climate Change, they predict that global warming will cause sea levels to rise from .11 all the way to .77mm by 2100. Because of this, smaller storms may create just as much damage as larger storms. If we do not try to put an end to global warming or take action to reduce it, then we, as humans, will have to suffer through these natural disasters, such as a hurricane.