'Total Devastation' as Hurricane Ian Tears Through Florida

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'Total Devastation' as Hurricane Ian Tears Through Florida
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'Climate breakdown is only getting started,' said ClimateHuman. 'It will keep getting worse so long as the fossil fuel industry exists. Cause, effect.'

, environmentalist Bill McKibben wrote that the immediate"task for Floridians is survival, and the next week's task—which the nation should share—is recovery."

"But the other job is limiting the danger going forward," McKibben added,"and it must be approached with the same energy that Ian is bringing onshore this week."that waters made warmer by the climate crisis likely played a role in Hurricane Ian's quick intensification as it barreled toward Florida's coast after ravaging Cuba earlier this week.'s Benji Jones and Umair Irfan."Just 48 hours later, those speeds had more than doubled.

Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami, told the pair that"even small changes [to ocean temperatures—half a degree C, or a degree—can really make a big difference." “We've been able to let the Gulf sit and bake throughout hurricane season," Miller said."There's this pristine Gulf of Mexico from a sea-surface temperature standpoint, and Hurricane Ian has been able to exploit that."

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