eli5: I know that these most recent severe storms and disasters are undoubtedly a result of worsening climate change, but as a non-science person I don’t understand exactly how/why.
In: Planetary Science
Fun fact I just graduated with a meteorology degree and I took an entire tropical meteorology course and the general consensus in the meteorology world is a warming climate actually reduces the number of hurricanes due to the atmosphere being more hostile towards hurricanes with higher amounts of wind shear. HOWEVER we were also taught when hurricanes do form they would be bigger and stronger due to the warmer ocean waters. This hurricane season is actually a perfect example of what we learned in that class…..it’s been a relatively quiet hurricane season but the storms we’ve gotten have been monsters!
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