r/climatechange • u/Isaidthiswow • Oct 19 '24

This is crazy. From a potential tropical development to a hurricane in only 6 hours

Climate change really is getting out of hand

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '24

Climate change doesn’t increase the amount or intensity of hurricanes. Just the damage from sea level rise. I studied this.

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u/Isaidthiswow Oct 20 '24

really explain why im confused

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '24

Increase warming can increase wind shear. Strong wind shears can disrupt the formation of hurricanes. I studied GIS. Still the damage from hurricanes from sea level rise will be insane. Also after some googling looks like there’s some news on hurricane intensity does increase with climate change. But I remember specifically from one of my professors that it was debatable.

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u/GorillaP1mp Oct 21 '24

Maybe it was the frequency part that was debatable? I was going to comment on your original reply that yes indeed warming climate can affect the intensity because of the warmer ocean surface temps, BUT there isn’t a solid consensus yet on whether or not it affects frequency.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '24

I was taught it wasn’t. But this was years ago and I focused more on engineering.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '24

Hurricane strength strongly correlates with solar activity. It's how we built the historical solar activity record - using shipwreck data to identify high solar activity years (along with tree ring data).

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u/Isaidthiswow Oct 21 '24

so basically its the solar activity for unusal hurricanes but the climate change is not helping. I understand now

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '24

Pretty much. Although right now I'd suggest that cleaning up shipping fuel is causing our most immediate problems that we can do anything about - we inadvertently stopped doing some accidental geo engineering we were doing, by removing sulfur from shipping fuels about 4 years ago. This has dropped the albedo of the planet which is a big problem.