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1,000-year rainfall, record-breaking surge: How climate change made Hurricane Ian more destructive
Scientists are confident that climate change is increasing the rainfall rate in hurricanes. It’s also making storms stronger and pushing them to intensify faster.
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State of Play
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.