Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism. I'm Paul Dickinson.

I'm Tom Rifikarnack.

I'm Christina Fiegégédères.

And I'm Paul Dickinson.

Today we press the emergency podcast button to bring you a conversation about what has happened and the implications of what

had happened with the hurricanes in the South Atlantic. Thanks for being here. Oh, Okay, so we are in the middle of a special series looking at how to live a good life in the climate crisis,

but we decided to get together for a few minutes today to actually look at the devastating impacts

that have been unfolding in the southeastern United States, in Florida in particular as a result of these successive

hurricanes that have been coming through. So there is a conclusive

connection between increasing temperature of the ocean and the

intensity and the severity of hurricanes.

Scientists are extremely clear that climate change

may not be creating more hurricanes,

but it is creating more intense hurricanes.

And there was some research that came out a while ago

that pointed out that if you look back in time

Storms intensified at a slower rate in the past than they do now and researchers have found that since the 1970s the number of storms

escalating into category four or five hurricanes has roughly doubled.

So which if you would like to come in first of all on this piece we're going to begin this little bonus on looking

at the science behind the severity of hurricanes.

Yeah I mean it's not so difficult to understand right so we know that the Atlantic Ocean

has been harder than average over the past 18 months.

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