we always thought that hurricanes just
kind of stirred up the surface of the
ocean we know that they're fed actually
by heat in the ocean
but now there's some new research a new
study that was just published in the
last couple of weeks showing that
hurricanes actually cause heat waves in
the deep ocean they push heat down into
the ocean
and then that heat radiates out in waves
from the the spot where the hurricane is
above the ocean across the ocean floor
and can travel as much as five six
thousand miles hurricanes in the Pacific
over near the Philippines are heating up
the deep ocean as it approaches and
comes up on shore in California and
Ecuador
now what this means is that in a world
with more heat more of that heat is
being transferred deeper into the ocean
by these hurricanes and that is speeding
up the bleaching of coral it's speeding
up the killing off of species that are
temperature sensitive or the forcing of
species to to migrate and move because
they just you know their Their Food
Supplies are not available at those
temperatures or they don't survive well
at those temperatures
the article about this over at the
conversation.com notes that for over two
decades scientists have debated whether
the warm Waters that are mixed downward
by hurricanes could heat ocean currents
and thereby shape Global Climate
patterns uh now we find the heat
injected by the typhoons and the
Philippines Sea for example have been
have have been found to have flowed
toward the coasts to the coasts of
Ecuador and California
the excess heat from the Hurricanes May
contribute to stressed coral and
bleached Coral far from where the storms
appeared
just a little more a little more data
that we are doing some serious damage to
our planet
because for 50 years now fossil fuel
companies have been lying to us and
buying politicians in the United States
and around the world
to keep making a profit selling their
product as they go on to destroy the
world