Alejandra Borunda
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325 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4 Sep
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And just for anyone who wants to look deeper at the model, we made it open source.
You can take a look, we'll drop a URL in somewhere.
Earth is about 1.3 degrees Celsius hotter now than it would be if humans had not caused global climate change by burning vast amounts of fossil fuels.
That extra heat has so far mostly ended up in the world's oceans.
And a lot of the energy for storms like Melissa comes directly from the ocean.
A hotter ocean leads to potentially stronger, wetter hurricanes.
That's exactly what scientists at World Weather Attribution think happened.
Melissa had plenty of hot ocean water to feed on, so it got huge.
In the end, its rainfall intensity was about 9% higher, with wind speeds roughly 7% higher than they would have been absent climate change.
The storm caused more than 60 deaths in the Caribbean, though that number may rise over time.
Alejandra Borunda, NPR News.
Yeah, it's a great question.
So the main goal of this trip was about going all the way up to the northernmost landmass on Earth, which is this tiny gravel island surrounded by sea ice way at the top of Greenland.
It's called Inuit Kerketat.
It's also known as Kafe Klubin Island, which literally means Coffee Club Island.
Yeah, it was named by some Danes who really loved coffee.
Yeah, so I was up there with some ecologists who think a lot about how climate change is reshaping the Arctic.
So in other parts of the Arctic, like Alaska, plant life is changing really fast.
And that's changing how the permafrost works.
The amount of carbon that gets stored in the ground and a ton of other stuff.
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