The owner of a house on North Carolina’s Outer Banks that washed out to sea this week said he bought it not realizing how vulnerable it was to severe storms.
Without dramatic action to curb carbon emissions and adapt to unavoidable change, experts say the damage wrought by rising temperatures will only get worse.
Hurricanes are moving more slowly than they used to. That means storms are dumping more rain and doing more damage when they make landfall, as Hurricane Harvey did when it lingered over Houston.
Pinning down blame for complex weather events isn't straightforward. But cutting-edge science is rapidly shrinking the space to argue that the crazy weather we're experiencing isn't due to greenhouse gas emissions.
