Climate change & management

• What may climate change do to tropical storms?

  Make them more severe
• How much have global average sea surface temperatures risen since 1900?

  1. 06 °C
• What is difficult to predict about tropical storms due to climate change?

  Their frequency, intensity, and distribution
• What temperature will oceans be at for longer periods each year?

  27 °C or higher
• What trend has been observed in the number of tropical storms in the Atlantic since 1995?

  Increased number of storms each decade
• What effect do higher sea surface temperatures have on storm intensity?

  They likely increase evaporation and cloud formation
• How does rising ocean temperature affect the distribution of tropical storms?

  Storms can form at higher latitudes
• How many major hurricanes occurred from 2014 to 2018 compared to 1920 to 1970?

  Almost twice as many major hurricanes
• What are the methods to reduce the effects of tropical storms?

  1. Prediction and Monitoring

  • Use radar, satellites, and aircraft
  • Computer models for storm tracking

  1. Planning

  • Avoid high-risk areas for developments
  • Plan evacuation routes
  • Prepare emergency services

  1. Protection

  • Design buildings to withstand storms
  • Build flood defenses like levees
• What is the purpose of predicting storms?

  To provide early warning for evacuation
• What example illustrates the importance of storm prediction?

  Typhoon Haiyan's evacuation planning
• How can future developments avoid high-risk areas?

  By planning new houses away from low-lying zones
• What can communities do to prepare for tropical storms?

  Plan emergency services and rescue simulations
• How can buildings be designed to withstand tropical storms?

  By being built on stilts
• What natural flood defense is being planted in the Philippines?

  Mangrove forests
• What is the overall impact of rising temperatures on tropical storms?

  More storms over a larger area
• What should people know regarding tropical storms and climate change?

  Ways to reduce their impacts