14 DAY TRIAL // A new paper in the journal PNAS (Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences) warns that, as climate change and global warming progress, tropical cyclones that form in the western areas of the North Pacific will only get worse.
MIT researcher Kerry Emanuel explains that the predicted increase in oceanic water temperatures will translate into the formation of very strong tropical cyclones.
The same environmental changes will also trigger an increase in the frequency of these extreme weather manifestations.
Data obtained with the help of six global climate models suggests that the southwestern Pacific will be the only area to experience a decline in local storm activity, Mongabay reports.
Several other studies have shown that climate change and global warming will sooner or later up the frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones.
Given the devastation that such storms can cause, it is no wonder that many also worry about the economic toll of the changes currently taking place in global weather patterns.