NEW CLIMATE CENTRAL STUDY: Ocean temperatures made higher by human-caused climate change are fueling more intense hurricanes in the Atlantic. This study, published in Environmental Research: Climate, shows that climate change increased the intensity for most Atlantic hurricanes between 2019 and 2023 — and for every storm so far in 2024. 30 hurricanes in the study (out of 38) reached intensities roughly one category higher on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale compared to their expected stre

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