Sentence examples for Making storms from inspiring English sources

Climate change is making storms more powerful and disrupting the patterns of marine life on which communities depend.

We know that climate change is making storms more frequent and more severe, and that the waters are rising higher, and more often.

Mooney tells the story as an escalating battle between William Gray, a leading hurricane forecaster from Colorado State University who disputes the existence of human-caused global warming, and the M.I.T. theorist Kerry Emanuel, who suggested in late 2005 that warming was already making storms stronger.

It's making storms like Harvey and Irma, when they do occur, ever more powerful and destructive.

For example, rising ocean temperatures could be making storms like Harvey bigger than they would be otherwise, said Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University.

"We do know that, on average, climate change is making storms stronger, causing them to intensify faster, increasing the amount of rainfall associated with a given storm, and even making them move more slowly," she said.

With climate change making storm surges more likely, "this is likely to not be the only time something like this happens," he said.

Curry pointed out that, thanks to global warming, not only were hurricanes becoming more intense but sea levels were rising, making storm surges that much more dangerous.

In Elena's wake, President Ronald Reagan declared parts of Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida federal disaster areas, making storm victims eligible for financial aid and temporary housing.

The emergency declaration will require employees -- who a union rep said were more than willing to put in extra hours -- to work overtime making storm damage repairs.

A warmer planet means more water vapor in the atmosphere, which in turn makes storms stronger.