Cleaner air in United States and Europe is brewing more Atlantic hurricanes, a new U.S. government study found.
“That’s why the Atlantic has gone pretty much crazy since the mid-90s and why it was so quiet in the 70s and 80s,” said climate and hurricane scientist Jim Kossin of the risk firm The Climate Service. He wasn’t part of the study but said it makes sense. The aerosol pollution “gave a lot of people in the 70s and 80s a break, but we’re all paying for it now.”
Roadways buckled as dirt underneath them washed away during flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida. NBC Boston reporter Kathryn Sotnik is in Rhode Island touring damaged areas - and says Ida's damage is even worse than the destruction from Henri last month. In the Pacific, aerosol pollution from Asian nations has gone up 50% from 1980 to 2010 and is starting to drop now. Tropical cyclone formation from 2001 to 2020 is 14% lower than 1980 to 2000, Murakami said.
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