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Several factors linked to the climate crisis are helping to fuel more powerful, destructive storms like Hurricane Ida, scientists say. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s leading authority on climate science, found that storms with sustained higher wind speeds — in the Category 3-5 range — have likely increased in the past 40 years. Susan Lozier, Dean and Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair in the College of Sciences, president of the American Geophysical Union, and a physical oceanographer, says “there is more energy available, so intensification of these hurricanes is expected. And intensification brings more winds."
