Hypercanes: The Next Big Disaster Movie?

Do you ever think of what could cause the next big extinction? How about a super massive tropical storm that sweeps over continents? Hey, it could happen! Check out this SciShow Dose to see how a hypercane would be possible.

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Sources:
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/cyclone.html
http://scijinks.jpl.nasa.gov/hurricane/
http://www.hurricanescience.org/science/science/development/
http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Water/temp.html
ftp://texmex.mit.edu/pub/emanuel/PAPERS/hypercane95.pdf
http://www.ipsnews.net/2005/09/environment-the-dawn-of-the-hypercane/
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129%3C1704%3AHMIPAP%3E2.0.CO%3B2
ftp://texmex.mit.edu/pub/emanuel/PAPERS/annrevfinal.pdf
https://books.google.com/books?id=yRMgYc-8mTIC&pg=PA549#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://www.hurricanescience.org/science/science/development/

Images:
Hurricane Isabel: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hurricane_Isabel_from_ISS.jpg Hurricane Floyd: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hurricane_Floyd_1999-09-14.jpg

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