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Old 08-21-2006, 11:42 PM
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Default Can global warming cause a permanent storm in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean sort of like the storms on Jupiter

Excesive over heating for an indefinate period of time may cause a hurrican to circulate in the ocean for months or even years. Since this is a planet of mostly water, rising sea levels and vast areas of oceans may provide the idea situation for a Jupiter like storm system to occure on this planet.
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Old 08-21-2006, 11:49 PM
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I highly doubt it. Our weather systems aren't even close to the ones that exist on Jupiter. As for Global Warming, that in itself I find to be an non-credible claim that it will destroy the world.
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Old 08-21-2006, 11:49 PM
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Jupiter doesn't have permanent storms, however it does have storms that last a very long time.
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Old 08-21-2006, 11:50 PM
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I'd opine that it can't.Â* Earth's atmosphere is like the peel on an apple compared to Jupiter, which is almost ALL atmosphere.
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Old 08-21-2006, 11:51 PM
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No...
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Old 08-21-2006, 11:55 PM
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Since there is no global warming there will be now storms as you describe. Even IF there was global warming there still wouldn't be storms as you describe.
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Old 08-22-2006, 12:07 AM
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"global warming" is simply a scare tactic.
even Al Gore admits that fact.
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Old 08-22-2006, 01:25 AM
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Interesting idea.

Unlikely. Hurricanes and typhoons are formed from the rising air over warm oceans. When the Hurricanes reach land, the storms begin to dissipate. Even with significant global warming, hurricanes and typhoons will still dissipate when crossing the relatively cool surface of land at night. Therefore, unless there is a wind pattern that keeps the storm over warm water permanently then the storms will be transient events.

Anyway, global warming might cause changes to storm patterns and their intensity. But the earth's surface will keep the atmosphere in a dynamic state which gives rise to storms and likewise breaks them down.
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Old 08-22-2006, 07:10 AM
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Besides sea-surface temperatures, hurricanes are also strongly affected by vertical wind shear (increase in winds w/ height).

I am not sure of what would happen w/ the vertical wind shear in an excessively warmed scenario, but usually when convection around the ITCZ is enhanced, a stronger Hadley-Walker circulation is developed and generates a strong sub-tropical high. A stronger subtropical high would generally bring on stronger trade winds and probably stronger winds aloft too. If this were to happen, hurricane potential could actually go down because they need very weak environmental winds to start up and intensify.
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Old 08-22-2006, 02:36 PM
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No. WE have different gasses at different temps. Because of the geographic makeup of our planet coupled with the speed of her rotation, this phenom. would not be very likely to happen.
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