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In 2008 notable rises in sea level were accessed across some Pacific Islands. In areas where food was normally grown near the shoreline, it was inundated by water. These native islanders were worried about more rises in sea level because of the Arctic ice melt (Wildcat, 2008). The question remained in their minds how much further inland would the water come? In 2014 NOAA indicated the global water rise was 2.6 inches above the 1993 average (Jackson, 2017). Hurricanes will produce higher storm surges in the future. For example, Hurricane Katrina had a storm surge of 25 to 28 feet. There are some people along the coast that reported thirty feet. Why was Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge so high considering it came ashore as a category four storm? In order to answer this, we need to see what the typical category four hurricane storm surge is. A typical category four hurricane storm surge is 13 to 18 feet. Knowing this information about the normal height of storm surge versus Hurricane Katrina in 2005 we see that the ice melt had already a significant effect on Katrina’s ability to flood and kill many along the gulf coast. This would indicate that cyclones (in Australia), typhoons in the Pacific, hurricanes in the Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico regions will introduce more flooding and higher storm surges as more arctic ice melt continues. This is all a result of global climate change from carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen releases. One can argue that the release of carbon 13 in the oceans could also be enhancing hurricane development. This is a possibility that can’t be ruled out but could be assumed that the releases of greenhouse gasses are a major contributing factor as well. Both playing the parts together make for a soup that the world can’t pay a price for in coastal regions. Tremendous flooding took place from Hurricane Harvey in Houston Texas 2017. It can be assumed that the amount of precipitation (above normal) can be attributed to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, producing more moisture in which global tropical systems can feed and produce tremendous precipitation. Regardless, if one is in Northern Australia, the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, or the Gulf of Mexico on a global scale storm surges will continue to increase because of arctic ice melt through climate change (Waldman, 2017).
World wildfires have been on the rise because of warmer temperatures and increasing electrical storms. Global warming through greenhouse gasses is a contributing factor in these significant wildfires. How can one claim that wildfires have contributed to global warming? Climate change produces a warming sector that can enhance dry electrical storms with lightning sparking off storms that produce wildfires. Even though the number of wildfires has decreased in recent years their intensity has overall increased. An analysis by climate scientists this year indicated that global climate change through greenhouse gasses would increase wildfires by 30% overall across the world. In Canada the majority of wildfires are started by lightning; in the United States the majority of wildfires are started by humans, during camping, or arsonists out to get their thrill of pyromania. Australian bushfires of 2019 through 2020 were very severe. These were record-breaking fires that destroyed much property across a portion of Australia. Will the reduction of greenhouse gasses solve the problem overnight? The answer is simply no. The breakdown of greenhouse gasses worldwide would take many years and for the foreseeable future, the wildfires are here to stay worldwide (Lilly, 2020).
The regional impact of tornadoes through climate change can be felt across Dixie and Tornado Alley. These two tornado alleys have seen an uptick in unprecedented powerful tornadoes since May 3, 1999 (Hausfather, 2019). The latent heat process of storms through the impacts of fertilizer, water treatment plants, and factories all produce an increase in severe storm evolution. An example of this evolution would be the 2013 El Reno Oklahoma tornado. On the afternoon of May 31, 2013, the Storm Prediction Center issued a high risk of tornadoes for Central Oklahoma. Storm chasers from all over the world would descend into the sooner state. In 2011 a drought had taken place across this region and contributed to the elevated use of nitrogen fertilizer. When The tornado did develop on May 31, 2013, it went across fields where this nitrogen fertilizer had been released by farmers. The enhancement of this tornado could be seen through the track of how it increased speed, decreased speed, and intensified and de-intensified as it hit the fertilizer in the fields. The chaotic track of these tornadoes put forecasters at odds with where the tornado was going to go. This climate change-enhanced tornado in the end killed five storm chasers and many other individuals who did not know how to escape the monster’s clutches. When the nitrogen oxide was inhaled by the supercell’s inflow this helped engage a process that is known by many as the glowing effect in tornadoes. Through a long-range tornado forecast analysis, I forecasted the El Reno tornado down to the street six months in advance. This email was sent to the American Meteorological Society. Also was able to send a letter to the NSSL warming about this tornado well in advance. No one heed my warnings and the tornado killed these people because of this. It can be argued that the May 20, 2013 tornado could have fallen under my forecast as well, which killed many young children in a school in Moore Oklahoma. Regardless, through latent heat enhancement of the supercell as nitrogen oxide was being ingested along the tornado path it enhanced and decreased the tornado intensity and speed through the process. This is a regional situation across tornado and dixie alley that will continue to be a problem for the foreseeable future because of the non-regulation of fertilizer on farms (Adams, 2021).
Flooding is another situation in a regional crisis that supports climate change as the cause. Along the Mississippi River in the Midwest record flooding occurred in 2019. What was the cause of this uptick in flooding? According to climate scientists, flooding is caused by the sea and the surface temperature rises contribute to the adding of five to ten percent in precipitation across the region. Since 1993 500 year floods have been occurring every five to ten years. This is directly associated with regional changes set forth by climate change. Business disasters because of the floods have taken their toll in the Midwest along the Mississippi River. Every five to ten years they are devastated by floods. The floods in Iowa contributed to climate change across a regional scale and have decreased farmers’ ability to produce normal crops when floods occur. The midwest has also reported thirty percent more precipitation than normal and it can be attributed to climate change greenhouse gasses warming the atmosphere (The Climate Reality Project, 2020).
In the future, more flooding is expected along the Mississippi River and the Midwest. As temperatures rise even more because of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere this trend leads to more dangerous flash flooding potential. The Midwest produces a high economic rate of greenhouse gas and they only have themselves to blame for the problems of flooding in their region (NCA, 2014).
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World on fire 2020: Experts explain the global wildfire crisis - Resilience
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Global Warming Tied to Hurricane Harvey - Scientific American
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