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Study: Analyzing climate change/hurricane links
This article discusses the linkage between global warming and hurricanes. A review of top research scientists’ views on climate/hurricane links points to areas of increasing scientific consensus, but with key voids still begging high-confidence understanding and answers.
Predictions for the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, now officially under way, amount to […]
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Report: Analyzing climate change/hurricane links
This article discusses the links between climate change and hurricanes. A review of top research scientists’ views on climate/hurricane links points to areas of increasing scientific consensus, but with key voids still begging high-confidence understanding and answers.
Predictions for the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, now officially under way, amount to […]
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Ocean heat as ‘fuel’ for hurricanes
This article discusses the findings of researchers who tracked the source of energy of the 2017 Hurricane Harvey that punished parts of Texas … right to the record-high Gulf of Mexico temperature.
As this year’s hurricane season is getting under way, leaves us still facing the “suffer the consequences” outcome, […]
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Study: Pediatricians are concerned about climate change, and here’s why
This article discusses health issues and climate change. Doctors have long raised alarm about the potential health risks of climate change, but it turns out that children are particularly vulnerable.
Children are estimated to bear 88% of the burden of disease related to climate change, according to a paper
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Study: Finding Harvey’s rains matched Gulf evaporation, scientists issue warning
This article discusses a study about hurricane Harvey rainfall, with a warming that this will likely become a harbinger of things to come.
Ever since Hurricane Harvey struck Houston last year with a record-breaking deluge, the city has been awash with warnings that more catastrophic storms are on the figurative […]
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Global warming made Hurricane Harvey more destructive
This article discusses how warming oceans fueled the intensity of last summer’s hurricanes.
Last summer, the United states was pummeled with three severe hurricanes in rapid succession. It was a truly awesome display of the power of weather and the country is still reeling from the […]
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Study: By the End of the Century, Stronger, Slower, and Wetter Hurricanes
This article discusses how warming temperatures will cause more severe hurricanes in the future.
To better understand how climate change will affect hurricanes, scientists have published a new analysis of what would have happened to 22 named Atlantic storms if they had instead formed near the end of this century. […]
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Study: U.S. insurers unprepared for climate change disasters
This article discusses how unprepared the US insurance industry is for the financial costs of climate change. Everything from hurricane damage, to drought, to wildfires, to severe storms, etc., will affect us in the future.
Most U.S. insurance companies have not adapted their strategies to address the dangers of climate […]
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Human-caused climate change is “supercharging” hurricanes, raising the risk of major damage
This article discusses the impact that climate change is having on hurricanes. A new study shows that record-breaking ocean heat pumped up Hurricane Harvey, contributing to catastrophic flooding.
The North Atlantic hurricane season last year was extraordinary for a number reasons, but none more memorable than these: Irma, Maria and Harvey.
These three hurricanes brought enormous […]
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Record Heat In The Gulf Fueled Hurricane Harvey’s Deluge
This article discusses how global warming affected Hurricane Harvey’s rainfall.
Hurricane Harvey, which devastated South Texas last August, was powered by what scientists say were the highest ocean temperatures they’ve ever seen in the Gulf of Mexico.
Portions of the Gulf to the south of the Texas coast were 86 degrees Fahrenheit. […]
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