Storms are expected to intensify in a warmer world,
because water vapor is kind of like the Nitroglycerin of the atmosphere.
Have you ever seen those cowboy movies
where they've got the stagecoach full
of nitro that they're going to use to do some mining or something like that?
And they gotta carry it around without shaking
it too much, because it could just blow up.
Well, water vapor is kind of the same way. Water vapor, when it condenses,
releases latent heat which then drives motion
that drives more water vapor to condense.
And so, all of the explosive weather that we have is due to water vapor.
And as I said before, in a warmer world
there will be more water vapor in the atmosphere.
That tends to make the weather stormier.