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Climate Cast ®
Paul Huttner and Megan Burks

Hurricane Dorian's wrath is linked to climate change

Smashed buildings remain in the wake of Hurricane Dorian
In this handout aerial photo provided by the HeadKnowles Foundation, damage is seen from Hurricane Dorian on Abaco Island on Tuesday n the Bahamas. The massive, slow-moving hurricane devastated parts of the Bahamas with Category 5 force winds and heavy rains.
HeadKnowles Foundation | Getty Images file

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Hurricane Dorian thrashed the Bahamas for three days, whipping structures with winds as strong as 120 mph and dumping nonstop rain on the low-lying islands. James Kossin, a hurricane and climate expert with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said climate change is fueling more of these slow-moving storms.

“If we look back over the continental United States, which is where our hurricane data is best, and we look all the way back to the year 1900 to the present, so about 120 years, we see a clear slowdown of 17 percent,” Kossin said. “That’s a long enough period to say that this does not appear to be natural variability.”

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