When is climate change just weather?
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Enhanced Infrared satellite imagery of hurricane Dorian as a category 5 storm with 185 mph winds as it rages through the northern Bahama islands.Recovery has begun in the Bahamas after massive devastation from Hurricane Dorian, a Category 5 monster of historic intensity. The U.S. southeast coast and Canadian Maritimes are keeping a watchful eye on Dorian, still a powerful storm.
Such questions are not just scientific, but have a strong overlay of politics. Claims of the effects of accumulating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere on hurricanes are often a proxy for calls for more aggressive policy action on climate change. Fortunately, recent scientific assessments provide the latest understandings of hurricanes and climate change.
Before proceeding, let me make a few things perfectly clear: Human-caused climate change, driven by accumulating greenhouse gases, is real and poses significant risks. Aggressive action is needed to decarbonize the global economy and to improve adaptation to climate. But none of that justifies departing from scientific integrity. Playing things straight is always the best course of action.
On hurricanes – and more generally, tropical cyclones -- we are fortunate that there have been two recent consensus statements of experts produced by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO,
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Donald Trump's very stormy weekPresident Donald Trump skipped an international trip to monitor hurricane coverage at home, but instead he kicked off a weeklong storm over where Hurricane Dorian was headed.
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Images, before and after Dorian, reveal extent of Bahamas destructionSatellite images of the Bahamas, before Hurricane Dorian and after Hurricane Dorian, show the extent of storm’s destruction that initially hit the islands as a Category 5.
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Trump won’t let Alabama map controversy goSix days after his inaccurate warning that Hurricane Dorian posed a threat to Alabama, the president again used his Twitter feed to complain about news coverage of his mistake.
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