Hurricanes contribute to global warming in five primary ways.
1.) Hurricanes cause huge amounts deforestation. The dead trees killed by hurricanes release there carbon to the atmosphere. Also trees are earths natural shade. When hurricanes kill them it causes the earth to get hotter in the daytime than release the extra heat at night contributing to global warming.
The dead trees killed by hurricanes don’t do any photosynthesis.
Photosynthesis soaks up heat from sunlight, it also soaks up carbon and water vapor from the atmosphere all of which contribute to global warming.
2.) Hurricanes are the ultimate dehumidifier, the fuel for a hurricane is
humid air. When hurricanes dehumidify the air it allows more sun to hit
the ocean causing it to warm up. Humid air is another natural shade for the ocean. When the air in a hurricane eyewall rises it dehumidifies, than it comes rushing down as a huge hot dry high pressure allowing the sun to bake the ocean unrestricted by the normally high humidity above the ocean.
3.) The friction between the hurricane and the ocean causes the water to
heat up. The hot wind from a hurricane makes all the energy in the big waves. A hurricane transfers energy from the hot humid air to the ocean thought friction between the water and the wind.
4.) The rain from a hurricane falling on the ocean causes the water to
warm up. The massive amount of warm rain drops moving at a high velocity colliding with the ocean causes it to warm up.
5.) Hurricanes cause massive amounts of erosion blocking sunlight to plankton. When plankters don’t get enough sunlight they don’t soak up carbon and make oxygen. The sunlight that should of gone to the plankters gets soaked up by the dark muddy water making the ocean hotter than it should be.
It becomes a vicious cycle. Hurricanes heat the ocean which causes more
hurricanes that heat the ocean even more.
The easiest solution to are problem is to get rid of hurricanes.
My question is when the big waves generated by a hurricane dissipate does there energy turn into heat? Do big waves heat the ocean?