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We’ve already met Alberto, Beryl and Chris. Although it is quiet now, you'll likely be hearing about Debby and Ernesto soon, and then will come Francine.
If we hit the top end of that prediction, we run out of names. Then what? In the past, storms would be assigned a Greek letter . But as a testament to decades of increasing storm activity, theI live in New Orleans, a city that is no stranger to the devastation caused by hurricanes–where a name–Katrina, Rita, Ida–comes to mean so much.
No matter where you live, this volatile cycle is affecting you. In the Gulf states of the U.S. heartland, intensified threats to coastal communities means damage to critical infrastructure, disruptions to public services and increasing prices for property insurance for us all. And vulnerable communities in low-lying areas are at more imminent and greater risk–another negative feedback loop of the climate crisis.
if we don’t cut greenhouse gas emissions enough to limit overshoot of 1.5 degrees C warming by 2040, we will have another 20 to 23
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