Four hurricanes
of a category three our higher have been recorded since Harvey hit the coast of
Texas twenty-six days ago. This is not
an all-time record, but it is among the records.
According to
Bob Henson, a meteorologist for Weather Underground, a forecasting service, “We
are running about twice the pace of a typical season.” Henson notes, “Ten of the fifteen most
active hurricane seasons since antebellum America have occurred in the past two
decades.”
It is not
possible to trace any of these hurricanes to a particular incident of climate
change; but, it is an accepted scientific conclusion that man made climate
change, caused by the uncontrolled dumping of carbon into our atmosphere, will
result in more frequent hurricanes and more violent hurricanes.
'The good thing about science is that it is true, whether or not you believe in it." Neil deGrasse Tyson
As ice caps
melt sea levels will rise and the salinity of the ocean waters will change. As seas become diluted oceans currents will
shift causing a change in climatic zones.
Warmer oceans, the results of greenhouse effect, will spawn more
frequent and more violent storms.
All of this
is already happening.
