Why Connecting Climate Change with Powerful Hurricanes Is Doing More Damage Than Good

by Sarah Myhre NASA/ISS
The cycle of climate news and extreme weather events has been so fast recently; it has been almost impossible to understand the scale of all the events simultaneously. Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, the fires in the Pacific Northwest—and this is just North America and the Caribbean. So many people and so much chaos; our collective safety, health, and stability are so obviously connected to extreme weather events and climate change. However, even with on-the-groun