The Cost of Tropical Cyclones

In a paper published this week in Nature Climate Change, the Emanuel and co-authors report a model to predict hurricanes around the world, looking at how hurricane activity might change in the next 100 years both with and without climate change. Their results suggest that, by the year 2100, the two factors of growing income and global warming could more than quadruple the economic damages caused by tropical storms in coastal regions of North America, the Carribbean and East Asia.

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