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Here's what's known about how climate change fuels tropical cyclones

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The human toll and economic costs of Hurricane Ian, yet to be totaled up, are likely to be great. This is true for almost every tropical storm or hurricane that makes landfall. Each year more and more people are moving to within fifty miles of the coasts, developing areas historically prone to hurricanes. Coastal development, moreover, is increasingly high-end, with high-rise condos, hotels, and mega-mansions replacing bait shops and smaller beachfront single-family homes. These factors, not greater numbers of hurricanes or hurricanes having higher wind speeds, account for the increasing economic and human costs of hurricane strikes.

Plain and simple, the data show recent hurricane numbers and wind speeds are well within historical norms. Such unalarming facts may not sell newspapers or ad time on broadcast news channels, but it’s the truth, and the media should do its job and report it.

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I always wonder what the motivation is to deny or downplay the climate crisis. Don't say it is just critical thinking and following science. There seems to be something deeper than that.

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I always wonder what the motivation is to deny or downplay the climate crisis. 

If there is an actual crisis of that magnitude and urgency, it cannot be ignored and governments will do everything in their power to mitigate or avert it.

If they can ignore it at their convenience then there is no actual crisis.

Look at the covid pandemic, for example. It was an actual crisis that cannot be ignored and consider what govts worldwide did and are still doing

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@ian

You mean that, for you, the fact that governments don't show any urgency means there is no crisis?

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