The Effect of Greenhouse Gases on Weather Severity
by: Daniel Grimes, Andrew Smith,Wendy Spading
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (52:163)
The University of Iowa Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Severe weather costs nations around the world billions of dollars in damages. Storms not only destroy dwellings, road ways, buildings and bridges...they take lives. Causing increases in severe weather occurances could be detrimental to society.
This page is designed to look at the effects that increasing greenhouse gases have on the number of severe weather events. Carbon dioxide is the most abundant component of the Greenhouse Gases. Carbon dioxide, and other greenhouse gases, can be produced in a variety of ways:
combustion
natural systems
chemical reactions
This is to just name a few. Greenhouse gases are being emitted in larger quantities year by year, and these are becoming more concentrated in the troposphere, the level of the atmosphere at which weather systems occur.
THE FACTS:
Global Changes in Greenhouse Gas Levels
CONCLUSIONS:
The conclusion generated from the study of the impact of greenhouse gases on weather severity is that there is not a direct correlation at this point. With a greater accumulation of the greenhouse gas concentration in the troposphere, some trend may appear, but that cannot be seen with the current data.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Global Measured Extremes of Temperature
and Precipitation
Global Change Electronic Edition: A
REVIEW OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND OZONE DEPLETION
Are Recent Extreme Weather Events, Like the Large Number of Atlantic Hurricanes in 1995,
Due to Global Warming?
Current Ozone Levels...enter date and
see recorded ozone levels
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