A Warming Planet
Jersey City, New Jersey
It could always be worse, right? Well, I don’t believe this is always the best approach. Like with tropical storm Henri, never materializing to hurricane status when making landfall. You may say it could always be worse, but it did wreaked havoc up the East coast with torrential rainfall.
This weekend, tropical storm Henri delivered record breaking rainfall in New Your City! The storm surge was not what they expected, as it moved slowly producing widespread flooding up the East coast. These heavy downpours inflicted terror and tragedy to Tennessee, tearing apart houses and killing more than 20 people. Watching the news, I heard some unforgettable stories of babies ripped out of their parents’ arms while the storm surge hit and later the babies found to be unresponsive.
On the West coast, it is the opposite weather pattern as they are contending with a record-breaking twenty-year drought causing temperature to rise much hotter than usual. Unfortunately, these weather patterns are consistent with climate models expecting more droughts and precipitation as the world continues to warm. The indirect effect and consequences will be far greater.
Did you know that as the air temperature increase, it can hold more moisture! For every 1 degree Celsius or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit air can hold about 7 percent more moisture.
So please, let’s all come together and ask ourselves: What can we do today to help reverse climate change? What can we learn that will reduce our carbon footprint? Who can we share this information with to help spread the awareness?
Together we can make a difference!