SINGAPORE - Within the span of about a month, two tropical cyclones pummelled Japan and an island chain in the Carribean, leaving widespread destruction to human lives and property.
"It's no coincidence that new records have recently been set in tropical cyclone intensity," said Dr Xie." I think we are seeing the climate change effect. The warmer the ocean gets, the stronger tropical cyclones will become." "The rising air cools, causing water vapor inside to condense. The latent heat released during the condensation warms the air," he said.
So while Hurricane Dorian and Typhoon Hagibis had occurred one after the other, it was not possible to directly link their occurrence to climate change, said Associate Professor Koh. Prof Koh said it was a rare occurrence, with some scientists estimating that such events tend to happen only once every 100 to 400 years, at random.
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