{"id":55820,"date":"2021-08-31T07:18:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T11:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carilec.org\/?p=55820"},"modified":"2021-08-31T07:18:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T11:18:26","slug":"what-we-know-about-climate-change-and-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/what-we-know-about-climate-change-and-hurricanes\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Know About Climate Change and Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Flooded streets in LaPlace, La., on Monday.Credit…Emily<\/p><\/div>\n

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By\u00a0<\/span>Veronica Penney<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Published\u00a0Aug. 29, 2021<\/span>Updated Aug. 30, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hurricane Ida<\/a>\u00a0intensified overnight, becoming a Category 4 storm over the course of just a few hours. The rapid increase in strength raises questions about how much climate change is affecting hurricanes in the\u00a0Atlantic Ocean<\/a>. While researchers can\u2019t say for sure whether human-caused climate change will mean longer or more\u00a0active hurricane seasons<\/a>\u00a0in the future, there is broad agreement on one thing: Global warming is changing storms.<\/p>\n

Scientists say that unusually warm Atlantic surface temperatures have helped to increase storm activity. \u201cIt\u2019s very likely that human-caused climate change contributed to that anomalously warm ocean,\u201d said James P. Kossin, a climate scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. \u201cClimate change is making it more likely for hurricanes to behave in certain ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here are some of those ways.<\/p>\n