Hurricanes and climate change: What's the connection?

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Year to year, it's hard to predict how bad a hurricane season will be. But scientists say climate change is making hurricanes worse, specifically when it comes to how destructive they are when hitting land.

is making hurricanes worse, specifically when it comes to how destructive they are when hitting land.

When Corbosiero talks about Impacts, she means the path of destruction a hurricane leaves when it hits a community, like homes, businesses and people. Corbosiero saidis one of the clearest ways climate change is affecting the destruction hurricanes cause. "I liked this study because they weren't trying to say there would be more storms or they would be more intense, but the storms that do form have a greater likelihood to make landfall, which impacts people," said Corbosiero.

"In terms of being able to attribute climate change and hurricane intensity or number increases, it's difficult to really be able to attribute things to certain causes," she said.

 

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