Mutant Weather

Increased global temperatures have exacerbated the trend of megafires, made for longer fire seasons and even resulted in fires burning in the most unusual places, including the Arctic Circle.

As the Earth is getting warmer, frigid arctic temperatures have travelled south taking with them polar vortexes, epic blizzards, bomb cyclones, and even ice tsunamis.

Perhaps the most calamitous of the effects of climate change is the melting permafrost and resulting rising sea levels. Already, some inhabited US islands are in danger of disappearing in the next 10 years.

The Earth heating up has had a domino effect and now we are seeing more sinkholes, landslides and mudslides, while increased atmospheric pressure is creating more earthquakes and tsunamis.

Warmer weather makes storms more volatile and unpredictable, with sudden downburst thunderstorms and giant hail striking on a sunny day, and now, researchers predict an increase in lightning strikes too.

As the atmosphere warms, tornadoes are appearing in places not accustomed to this phenomenon, including more densely populated areas. Not only has their number doubled, they've become more deadly too.

Caused by heavy precipitation, heavy rainfall is getting more extreme and causing an unprecedented amount of flooding and billions of dollars in lost property.

As global warming rises, some cities are seeing the highest monthly temperatures in history. But now, warmer ocean water is having catastrophic impacts on marine life.

The air we breathe is in jeopardy, with industrial pollution and wildfires just the start of the problems. And this is creating even more problems.

With warmer ocean temperatures and higher sea levels comes strengthened hurricanes and tropical storms. But do we now need to add a category 6 to the hurricane scale to measure these storms?