Calls are increasing to address the connection between extreme weather events and climate change. Ginger_Zee on how devastating wildfires are raising concerns about lack of preparedness for climate change:
The impact of climate change on events like tropical storms is more challenging to measure. The way meteorologists and climatologists study them has changed over the years and identifying a trend depends how far back researchers look.
People survey the damage to their homes left in the wake of Hurricane Laura, Aug. 27, 2020, in Holly Beach, La. Other climate experts, like Roger Pielke Jr., an environmental studies professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, are more skeptical of the theory and say that while the connection between climate change and events like tropical storms makes sense, there isn't enough data to prove it yet.
Even if scientists don't fully understand the connection between climate change and different types of extreme weather, emergency management experts say we'll still have storms and the country should take steps to prepare for them to get worse.
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