How will global warming affect thunderstorms?

Question

How will global warming affect thunderstorms?

Answer 1

global warming is that the change of climate all over the world due to pollution of air by this due to global warming there might a change in our nature it can be known by nowadays  by hot sun,  in some places there might be very cool climate that goes lesser than the zero degree celcius so it might affect by these ways.

Answer 2

because the more polluated it gets the more colder and more torandoes and hurricanes and more will be

Answer 3

i think global warming will make storms (thunder) more violent and lives will be at risk even in peril

Answer 4

Global warming causes thunderstorms to be less powerful because more warming means less water vapor in the air and the moisture is dumped back as rain. Cooling causes more vapor and moisture to be trapped for a longer time causing more intense storms.

Hurricanes the same thing applies.  The last two seasons did not live up to projections because the southern hemisphere experienced the coolest winter in years.

Answer 5

it wont.  We have always had severe thunderstorms.  The frequency might increase.  But doesnt this help to stop global warming, as nice thick, white cloud tops reflect sunlight back into space?   Ive heard a mere 2% increase in average cloud cover would be enough to negate the "warming from co2".

Also, more storms means more rain, which means more co2 being cleaned out of the atmosphere.  And with more rain, how will there be more drought, less water for people?  You cant say global warming will cause droughts in some areas, and floods in others because these types of events have been happening forever, whether we were here or not.

Answer 6

Probably not much but there are reports that global warming will increase the likelihood of extreme weather.

Answer 7

It seems to be a toss up.Most gov, state and some independent links seem to think solar forcing has more to do with warming then CO2.But I can't really say...it's a complex situation and not a simple one.

Here's a good link but a long read, that weighs both the pro's and con's of the issue.

Answer 8

i dont know about thunder storms, but global wrming will affect hurricanes and tornadoes. & melt glaciers and rise ocean levels.  It will make storms stronger.

Answer 9

They might be more frequent than before.

Answer 10

Conor R

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We definitely didn't start global warming, but we definitely do contribute to it now.

Natural gas (or Methane along with other thanes) for example, is completely a natural contributer to global warming and is derived pretty much the same way as oil. ie. Matter (animal, plant etc) decomposes over time resulting in a anaerobic (hope I spelled that right) decay of non-fossil organic material / gas (natural gas or methane).

One problem with global warming is that the concept is so vague in the minds of the people. The critical interpretation is basically how it’s explained in school and the news. However most of the public see global warming connected with the ozone and pollutants which cause harmful greenhouse gasses, etc. therefore investigating and fighting for things like alternative energy (ie. Solar, wind, hydrogen, ethanol, biodiesel, etc)

Greenhouse gases are real and do contribute to global warming. Think of the different gas layers like ozone (o3) that circumference the globe as the clear plastic on a greenhouse. Longer rays of light from the Sun go in and reflect off different thermal masses bouncing back and creating shorter lengths of energy that cannot exist the plastic barrier. These beams then just continue to bounce around inside the green house until they’re finally absorbed completely (some do escape but very few), thereby warming the greenhouse greatly even in cold temperatures.

Basically there are 2 ways that this reaction (or lack of) affects the planet. Global warming and global cooling.

1. as we add to the gases in the stratosphere, where the ozone layer is (Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, etc), we add to the plastic of the greenhouse, trapping more short wave length energy and heating the earth more.

2. as we deplete the ozone (with chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs), we allow more long wave length energy, which bounces back out to space without heating any thermal masses on earth, thereby cooling the planet.

It’s pretty easy to see the results..

Melting ice sheets & glaciers

Floods & droughts

Great hurricanes & cyclones

Seasonal extremes

Seasonal phenomena’s

Species extinction

New & resurgent diseases

There are many ways to stop both global warming and cooling from accruing or at least slow them down until we can discover a way to reverse it, but Stop burning fossil fuels is the biggest.

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Answer 11

A recent study came out that indicated areas prone to severe thunderstorms are likely to experience them more often.  But this is only one study so you can't make any conclusions yet.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

The latest IPCC report said "evidence for changes in small-scale severe weather phenomena (such as tornadoes,  hail and thunderstorms) is mostly local and too scattered to draw general conclusions"

Answer 12

They won't be as cold as they used to be.