Climate Change and its Effect on Powerful Storms

It has been a slow past couple of days in the severe weather department for the most part so I thought I would shift gears a little bit. One of the best sources for up-to-date severe weather information including statistics, videos, and pictures are the people at weather underground. Recently they came out with a story on global climate change and specifically talked about the rising sea waters that will impact the globe in our lives. They use information taken from a project called "Sea Level Rise in My Lifetime," which is a report on rising waters that was recently done by Florida Atlantic University. TEDxTalks on rising tides

This is an important topic. As I have mentioned in earlier posts, global climate change is happening. There is no debating it and the evidence is overwhelming. With the overall increase in global temperatures, we can see the ice caps melting and record high temperatures happening currently and this is contributing to the rising sea waters that may have a lasting effect on our world's coastlines.

(OK maybe a little extreme)

Climate change is going change not just the amount of ice in the polar ice caps. Climate change can very well cause the frequency and severity of some of our world's most powerful hazards to increase. We have already seen historic storms like Superstorm Sandy and Typhoon Haiyan devastate different populations around the world. Is it possible that we will start to see more of these unprecedented storms gracing a with their presence? Maybe they already are. 

This will be an important time for hazard prevention, protection, and mitigation as we continue down this path. There is no stopping it and unfortunately for us, they may be no stopping these storms. 

*For more information of Weather Underground's report on rising sea levels click here.

Sources:

http://www.wunderground.com/news/future-sea-level-rise-around-us-photos-20131203