Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT — Are hurricanes getting worse? Scientists say climate change is making hurricanes and typhoons worse, pushing them north, and New York, Boston, Beijing and Tokyo will start to experience hurricanes in 2022 and beyond.
The BBC reports that a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience argues that if global warming continues, hurricanes and typhoons will start to move farther northward and southward, entering the world’s most populated areas.
This means that cities like New York, Boston, Beijing and Tokyo would eventually start to experience these extreme storms on a regular basis.
Researchers say the reason for this is because global warming will eventually decrease the temperature difference between the cold polar regions and the hot tropical regions.
It is this temperature difference that forms Earth’s jet streams, which are high-altitude currents of fast-moving air that separate the two systems and keep cyclones close to the tropics.
Scientists predict that global warming will cause this crucial temperature difference to decrease and thereby reduce jet stream activity and perhaps even cause the jet streams to fade away.
This effect would cause cyclones to push farther north than ever before, slamming into the big cities of the northern hemisphere.
The BBC says the study’s authors argue that this devastating course is not set in stone, and that dramatic reductions in carbon emissions — especially over the next decade — could save Earth’s jet streams from fading away.
SOURCES: BBC, USA Today, Nature.com, Homeofscience.net
bbc.com/news/science-environment-59775105
usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/12/29/climate-change-more-hurricanes-could-hit-new-york-boston-study-says/9045378002
homeofscience.net/2021/12/29/climate-change-hurricanes-to-expand-into-more-populated-regionson-december-29-2021-at-542-pm
nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00859-1
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT — Are hurricanes getting worse? Scientists say climate change is making hurricanes and typhoons worse, pushing them north, and New York, Boston, Beijing and Tokyo will start to experience hurricanes in 2022 and beyond.
The BBC reports that a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience argues that if global warming continues, hurricanes and typhoons will start to move farther northward and southward, entering the world’s most populated areas.
This means that cities like New York, Boston, Beijing and Tokyo would eventually start to experience these extreme storms on a regular basis.
Researchers say the reason for this is because global warming will eventually decrease the temperature difference between the cold polar regions and the hot tropical regions.
It is this temperature difference that forms Earth’s jet streams, which are high-altitude currents of fast-moving air that separate the two systems and keep cyclones close to the tropics.
Scientists predict that global warming will cause this crucial temperature difference to decrease and thereby reduce jet stream activity and perhaps even cause the jet streams to fade away.
This effect would cause cyclones to push farther north than ever before, slamming into the big cities of the northern hemisphere.
The BBC says the study’s authors argue that this devastating course is not set in stone, and that dramatic reductions in carbon emissions — especially over the next decade — could save Earth’s jet streams from fading away.
SOURCES: BBC, USA Today, Nature.com, Homeofscience.net
bbc.com/news/science-environment-59775105
usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/12/29/climate-change-more-hurricanes-could-hit-new-york-boston-study-says/9045378002
homeofscience.net/2021/12/29/climate-change-hurricanes-to-expand-into-more-populated-regionson-december-29-2021-at-542-pm
nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00859-1
