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Question #3e176

Answer 1

This question assumes that climate change is causing more severe weather.

Explanation:

Al Gore predicted that global warming would create more frequent and more severe hurricanes. This prediction has not come true.

According to the National Hurricane Center "Hurricanes are not linked to global warming. Hurricanes are are no more intense or frequent worldwide than they have been since 1850.

So a global scale there is no evidence that global warming has caused an increase in severe weather at least in terms of hurricanes as predicted by the theory of global warming.

Answer 2

Mainly due to the fact that heat creates weather.

Explanation:

If you think about weather it is all energy. That energy comes from heat (the sun). When we talk about climate change we are talking about an overall increasing of global temperatures. That means more energy available to create weather.

Looking at the changing weather over the past few years we are seeing greater severity of weather. The fact that we have the first F5 tornado in Canada in the past few years and the fact that a hurricane has come so far north as to flood areas of New York City. But the main thing that people do not think about is the weather that has killed more people than pretty much anything else, drought.

Anyone that makes a statement that storms are not getting more severe is not actually reading anything about it but giving their personal opinion about what they have observed in their part of the world.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ClimateStorms/page2.php

The above page gives actual statistics about storms in recent years, including 30% increase in how often there is extreme downpours, 10% increase in precipitation in storms and a 60% increase in strength in hurricanes since the 70's.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-finds-drought-in-eastern-mediterranean-worst-of-past-900-years

Have a read of the above page about drought from NASA, also showing an alarming severity.