Climate change is going to force us to rewrite the books on what a "normal" hurricane season is supposed to look like. Increased Saharan desertification may lead to longer lasting plumes reaching across the Atlantic. However, weakening (or strengthening) of the trade winds may decrease or magnify those effects. Ocean temperatures will likely rise, but circulation collapses may affect those as well. We are in a period of rapid change, that's certain. Right now changes seem incremental and somewhat predictable, but historical data from ocean sediment cores to land based pollen counts show that there can be very abrupt climate changes.
For a very long time, I've been left with the general impression that the increased heating of the planet is leading to decreased atmospheric circulation in both the air and oceans --> at least the continents are currently spread out, unlike Pangaea. I certainly hope Earth doesn't reach Permian level temperatures and anoxic conditions again.
Climate change is going to force us to rewrite the books on what a "normal" hurricane season is supposed to look like. Increased Saharan desertification may lead to longer lasting plumes reaching across the Atlantic. However, weakening (or strengthening) of the trade winds may decrease or magnify those effects. Ocean temperatures will likely rise, but circulation collapses may affect those as well. We are in a period of rapid change, that's certain. Right now changes seem incremental and somewhat predictable, but historical data from ocean sediment cores to land based pollen counts show that there can be very abrupt climate changes.
For a very long time, I've been left with the general impression that the increased heating of the planet is leading to decreased atmospheric circulation in both the air and oceans --> at least the continents are currently spread out, unlike Pangaea. I certainly hope Earth doesn't reach Permian level temperatures and anoxic conditions again.
It's scary to contemplate that possibility and even scarier to realize we can't rule it out.