tombi123 said:
HappySqurriel said:
tombi123 said:
sguy78 said:
tombi123 said:
@Sqrl
The increase in intensity is negligible at the moment. But remember that even if we stopped increasing our CO2 emissions tomorrow, ocean temperatures would rise for the next 30-40 years releasing more CO2 into the atmosphere which then increases land surface temp etc. leading to increasing hurricane intensity.
5-10% increase doesn't sound like a lot, but it would cost more lives and money, especially in low lying developing countries. |
We shouldn't be throwing exorbitant amounts of the people's money on what ifs. I could tell you that Skittles cause cancer, and you could possibly die a horrible death as a result of eating them with no proof whatsoever. Would you give me millions of dollars with no discernable proof to force people to stop eating them?
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Increasing hurricane intensity due to increasing land surface temperature (relative to ocean surface temperature) isn't a what if. It is a fact.
Just so you know, my position on Climate Change is in between the advocates and sceptics. I believe we are contributing to global warming because carbon has been shown to absorb/trap heat, and we emit carbon. But I think we need more data to get a clearer idea of how much we are contributing to global warming.
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Its not a fact, its an unproven theory that many climate scientists believe ...
Climatology is a science that is in its infancy, and we don’t know nearly enough about the complex interactions within the system to make accurate predictions about how the influence of one variable will impact the system.
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There is plenty of evidence and it is well understood that generally a higher temperature gradient leads to a more intense storm.
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Having a an idea of something is not fact.
