• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    7 hours 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.

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    7 hours 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.

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      6 hours 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

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