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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: weatherguru who wrote (201601)8/25/2017 1:15:37 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps  Read Replies (1) of 224748
 
Extra heat turns up the intensity of a storm by strengthening all the forces that shape it. Water vapor, rising and cooling and releasing heat into the air, is the engine that drives a hurricane, says climatologist Jerry Mahlman of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The warmer the ocean, the more water evaporates; the warmer the air, the more water vapor it can hold. "[More moisture] would feed energy into the storms, and they would increase" in size and severity, says atmospheric physicist Michael Oppenheimer of the Environmental Defense Fund. And since the greenhouse effect is expected to warm the oceans by at least 2 or 3 degrees, the area of tropical ocean that is warm enough to spawn a hurricane "will almost certainly spread out," says Mahlman. Places that hurricanes seldom hit may become targets.
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