Hurricanes are getting stronger

Hurricanes are getting more and more stronger every year and scientists have come up with the firmest evidence so far that global warming is to blame for.

The wind speeds have increased significantly since 1981 and the upward trend, thought to be driven by rising ocean temperatures, is unlikely to stop any time soon.

One of the main issues is if climate-change is changing the strength, number and duration of tropical cyclones.

Basic physics and modeling studies do suggest that tropical storms will become stronger and stronger because warmer oceans provide more energy that can be converted into cyclone wind. This opinion isn’t shared by everyone since some scientists think that increasing shearing wind which is another consequence of global warming which is thought to suppress the cyclonic rotation of the storms.

A climatologist at Florida State University, James Elsner and his colleagues have now found that the strongest tropical storms are getting stronger, mainly the ones at North Atlantic and northern Indian oceans. Elsner says that very strong storms can easily overcome any inhibiting effects of shearing wind than weaker storms, and go on to reach their maximum possible strength.

Now we realize that one more negative effect of the global warming is increasing the strength of the tropical storms.

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