North Carolina Was Set Up for Disaster
www.theatlantic.com
The climate deck is so stacked now that even places that seem safe are witnessing dangerous impacts.
  • kalkulat@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 months ago

    This Cat-4 started just down by the Yucatan and worked up 140mph-sustained winds in a couple of days over the Gulf of Mexico. I’m wondering how common that’s been before.

    • bamfic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      They usually die down before or shortly after landfall. But the oceans are warmer now giving the hurricanes enery to go go go go

    • shani66@ani.social
      4·
      2 months ago

      Iirc, powerful hurricanes are pretty normal, but the changing climate is letting them stay around longer

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
    101·
    2 months ago

    The people who dismissed climate change as just sea levels rising laughed as they lived in the mountains. Now the mountains are flooding and it’s too late to change. Reap what was sown.