*If you don't want an explanation skip to end of this paragraph. Basically global warming is considered an overall warming trend in the mean average global temperature. Tornadoes are caused by the interaction of dry cool air in the mid levels, and warm moist air in the low levels, causing a very unstable situation. This unstable atmosphere allows for long lived and very large severe thunderstorm complexes. The larger and more violent the thunderstorm complex the greater the chance is for the occurrence of tornadoes. Now you would think that warming temperatures would cause a greater occurrence of severe weather due to a warmer moister layer in the low levels but the dynamics of it is dependent on the temperature/density gradient between the mid levels and the low levels, a warming atmosphere tends to warm the mid levels just as much as the low levels so your temperature gradient stays the same but warm air holds more moisture so your density gradient decreases. This increases the chance of thunderstorms, but decreases your chance of severe thunderstorms. *A warming atmosphere reduces the chance of tornadoes.
This simplifies the scenario somewhat. Global warming will have different impacts in different parts of the world. The result is that some areas may see a decrease in tornado activity while others see an increase. There is some evidence, for example, that the area of peak tornado activity in the United States is slowly shifting northward.
Greenhouse gasses are the cause of Global Warming.
Polar bears do not cause global warming. In fact, polar bears are affected by global warming due to the shrinking of their sea ice habitat. The loss of sea ice reduces their hunting grounds and threatens their survival.
No, Hurricane Katrina caused flooding and terrible damage to humans and property, but it did not cause global warming. Global warming is caused among other things by man burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) and putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
No, the scientific consensus overwhelmingly supports the claim that CO2 does cause global warming.
No, the scientific consensus overwhelmingly supports the claim that CO2 does cause global warming.
No. While global warming might affect tornado activity, tornadoes themselves are an end product of weather and climatic activity, not a cause.
So far no conclusive link has been found between tornadoes and global warming. Extra heat in the atmosphere is a form of energy, and energy drives tornadoes. Scientists predict that global warming will cause more frequent and more severe "weather events". Climate, however, takes time to change so it is unclear yet what is happening.
Global warming does not cause tornadoes. Tornadoes will happen with or without it. The argument that some use is that a warmer climate means that more energy is available for storms and thus more tornadoes. This is grossly oversimplified. A complex set of conditions are needed for tornado activity, especially significant activity. There are many variables. Raising average global temperatures will affect all of these variable in some way or another and will affect them differently in different regions in ways that are hard to predict. In all likelihood, global warming would result in an increase in tornado activity in some regions and a decrease in others.
Yes, it is. It is responsible for global warming.
Global warming is a cause of the ozone depletion. However it is not the main cause of it.
Global warming may cause the ocean to rise. If the ocean rises, then many places that are below sea level will flood.
There is no such thing as "a global warming" global warming only happens to earth because human and our unruly decrease in the earths resources. HUMANS cause global warming.
No. While events on the earths crust can cause global warming, the crust itself does not.
Increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide might cause global warming.
No.
Greenhouse gasses are the cause of Global Warming.
The main cause of thinning is CFC's. Global warming also affects it.