Matt Lanza

You can't think of a hurricane necessarily as a living thing, but, you know, that's what it's attempting to do.

It's attempting to transfer heat from the tropics to the poles.

And that's how the Earth kind of stays in balance, right?

It's part of living on Earth.

We always think of hurricanes as bad, but they're actually part of a well-functioning, normal Earth system.

You'll see some storms get pretty far south sometimes.

Like, you can get storms that are below 10 degrees latitude in either hemisphere, but they either can't survive because there's not enough spin and not enough force to keep them rotating, or...

they end up just going toward the pole, and that's that.

It becomes impossible for them to survive below a certain latitude.

We're going to get deeper into that question in a bit, but... Yeah, I think we're going to see some changes.

And I think we've already seen some evidence of that.

Just kind of in recent years, we've seen storms, you know, show up that are in like the far northeast Atlantic.

But we actually had like a technical tropical storm, I think, in Portugal a couple of years ago.

I think the California question is interesting because...

In California, they have been hit by tropical systems before.

And I think as kind of the West Coast warms a little bit, you know, storms are still going to weaken as they come north out of the Eastern Pacific, but maybe now they just kind of linger a little bit longer.

You know, so when we think about climate change, we have to think about it as a multiplier on top of, I always say like the cake's baked, right?

You're going to have cake.

Now you're just adding icing to that cake.

You're increasing the number of calories.