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Thread. I post and RT a fair amount of weather-related content on my TL because of my conviction that climate change is a mortal threat to human civilization. Note one aspect of #Yutu that @chriscmooney explains here: it strengthened very fast, from Cat 1 to 5 in about a day.
Warmer ocean water due to climate change means we can expect to see more of this. It has obvious implications for disaster preparedness along US coasts. Bigger, stronger storms could be right on top of people before they could evacuate...
...or reinforce residential and commercial structures, as we saw with #Michael in Florida & Georgia earlier this month. Climate change brings much more with it, though, than bigger hurricanes. @fivefifths has a penetrating observation in @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
