Hurricane And Climate Change

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Climate change around the world is increasing, affecting the intensity of hurricanes worldwide. For instance, since hurricanes use heated, warm ocean waters as fuel to create more intense hurricanes, the more excess energy hurricanes can get will strengthen it. Having knowledge on how to prevent future storms, hurricanes, from becoming stronger and having a solution is needed. Our project topic relates to the real world and is brought up frequently in the news daily. The hypothesis was valid, Our hypothesis is valid, it’s scientifically proved that the warmer the water is, the stronger a hurricane becomes from past hurricanes in the Pacific. However, this project could had have less pronouns, more in-text citations, and explained more in detail.

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