The imagery shows
somewhere in Caribbean Sea with a large hurricane clouds, that is almost
scary to us who remember Hurricane Katrina, and Sandy. It is used in
unreal story, but the image must be taken from a real remote sensing
photo from a satellite.
http://www.theonion.com/article/meteorologists-say-upcoming-hurricane-season-be-pe-51246
The
imagery is not important in scientific sense because it is used for an
article in the Onion, a newspaper filled with jokes and untrue stories.
However, if you have a sense of humor and thoughts on why humans make
jokes and be sarcastic sometimes, you would understand this article with
the eye-catching imagery tells us something. Due to climate change, we
are encountering stronger and more devastating hurricanes, droughts,
regional downpours, and other unusual weather patterns. It might become
true that we may have many more hurricanes this fall than in the past.
Compared to Mother Nature's strength, we humans are so helpless often,
which is described by the metaphor of needing candles, even in this
electronics age. Coast lines mentioned in the article keep retrieving
due to sea level rise. And it seems that we are having more large-scale
earthquakes, which must not be related to climate change, but makes us
think of the environment and the Earth system.
So, this joke article is not truth, but has its own value to make us realize climate change is man-made.
Posted by Masami Glines
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