Is it just me or is it warm in here?
“Climate change… is an issue of social justice, human rights, and fundamental ethics.”
-Ban Ki-moon (former United Nations Secretary General)
“Is it just me… or is it warm in here?”
Nope! It’s not just me. It’s the entire planet. However, for the sake of brevity I shall focus on the part where I live. (After all, this is a BriefBlog.) The arrival of autumn in the southeastern United States saw temperatures as high as ninety-seven degrees. This was record breaking but let’s not allow the needle to skip across this record; instead here’s another tune to warm your hearts.
Thus far the Atlantic Hurricane season has birthed 13 tropical cyclones or storms. Six of these have become hurricanes. Even as I write this, these numbers could change. A tropical storm has sustained winds of 33 miles per hour; when sustained winds reach 74 miles per hour the storm becomes a hurricane. Hurricanes are a warm weather phenomena with the season starting on June 1 and continuing until November 30. The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), NOAA, and the Northern Gulf Institute (NGI) conducted a fifty year study (1970 - 2020) that indicated that the surface water temperature of the Gulf of Mexico had increased at a rate “approximately twice that of the global ocean”. The increased surface heat of the ocean drives the strength of a tropical storm resulting in the formation of a hurricane.
Helene started as a tropical depression moving across “record warm” ocean waters gaining intensity as it wreaked havoc on the western coast of Cuba and gulf coast of Florida. By the time Helene made landfall near the Aucilla River on the big bend region of Florida it had become a category 4 hurricane. Helene came ashore with winds estimated to be 140 miles per hour. The results have been catastrophic. This massive hurricane brought destruction and loss of lives to Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. The death toll is over 200.
Climate Change Is Not A Hoax.
Peace,
Al Obert
Radical Urge
