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While markets get giddy on AI and interest rate cuts / speculation - the real risk is punching us in the face on a daily basis -  #environment #esg #lowcarbon #assetmanagement

Another Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF) successfully executed! Some of the takeaways from the CariCOF are: 1. The heat is on!! 🥵 2. With a near-record warm Atlantic and a developing La Niña in the Pacific, the forecast is suggesting a hyperactive hurricane season 🌀⛈️ . How the season will play out will of course be dependent on the frequency of Sahara Dust intrusion which often tends to limit the development of storms. Let’s see how the season will play out!!

This morning NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration will be providing us with 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season forecast. In advance of the forecast, sharing a really helpful piece by Raymond Zhong on the reason why storms are intensifying on parts of our nation and the importance of fortifying our #housing from wind and flood risk. “Violent clusters of thunderstorms cause extensive damage across the United States each year, not just through rain and flooding, but also through hail, tornadoes and walls of blasting wind. Here’s what to know about such storms, and how they might be changing in our warming climate”. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gd-YHM3f

Hurricanes tend to intensify in warmer climates, which makes rising temperatures due to climate change an ideal situation for hurricane generation. This increase in intensity could be defined by increases in speeds of more than 35 miles per hour in less than 24 hours. This may leave authorities helpless due to the reduced intensification time. These shortened intensification times are a new feature of hurricane behavior but are becoming a common feature at least once per hurricane season. Although it is not a certainty that there will be an increase in the number of hurricanes per season, it is crucial for governments to be prepared for any eventuality, as global warming has added uncertainty that could cause catastrophic damage by catching cities and towns unawares. Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AOTXk #ClimateChange #Hurricanes #StayInformed #Resilience #HurricaneHavoc

Hurricanes tend to intensify in warmer climates, which makes rising temperatures due to climate change an ideal situation for hurricane generation. This increase in intensity could be defined by increases in speeds of more than 35 miles per hour in less than 24 hours. This may leave authorities helpless due to the reduced intensification time. These shortened intensification times are a new feature of hurricane behavior but are becoming a common feature at least once per hurricane season. Although it is not a certainty that there will be an increase in the number of hurricanes per season, it is crucial for governments to be prepared for any eventuality, as global warming has added uncertainty that could cause catastrophic damage by catching cities and towns unawares. Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AKlCk #ClimateChange #Hurricanes #StayInformed #Resilience #HurricaneHavoc

The Atlantic Ocean is near record warm, and a favorable La Niña climate cycle is developing in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Yet at what is normally the peak of hurricane season, the ocean basin has stubbornly stayed in a deep slumber.

This tool from NOAA provides live insights for monitoring climate change for both short-term and long-term coastal inundations caused by hurricanes, such as Hurricane Helene. https://lnkd.in/g2HfzEQG

https://lnkd.in/g_rUiwsC Not God but Climate Change is the real reason why Florida is going to face this monster Hurricane! DeSantis is the only one to blame here for a lack of coordinated evacuation efforts!!! One 2023 study in Nature Communications found that climate change and the rise in temperature in coastal waters has increased the number of rapidly intensifying hurricanes that strike just offshore by nearly four per decade from 1980 to 2020—a period in which global mean temperatures rose by nearly 1.5°C. “This suggests that global warming is a key driver of [rapid intensification] events,” the researchers wrote. Climate change affects wind shear too—also making the planet more hospitable to hurricanes. The poles are heating faster than the equator and it’s the differential between those two regions that helps drive shear; the smaller that difference becomes, the calmer the upper atmosphere winds grow, allowing storms to build up force unimpeded. NOAA models predict that by the end of the century, the eastern part of the U.S. will be struck especially hard by this change—meaning more hurricane hits in unlikely places like western North Carolina, which was just devastated by Hurricane Helene.

My thoughts are with the people of the #Caribbean as #Hurricane Beryl approaches the Windward Islands with potentially life-threatening winds and coastal flooding. The US National Hurricane Center, which is the World Meteorological Organization regional centre, has issued Hurricane Warnings for Barbados, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and Tobago. Never has a tropical cyclone intensified so rapidly to Category 3/4 so early in the season. This season is expected to be extremely active, not least because of very warm ocean temperatures. Small islands are on the frontline of extreme weather and #climatechange impacts and are priorities for many WMO initiatives and for #EarlyWarningsForAll. This image is from NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration GOES East satellite. Latest information at hurricanes.gov