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"It's not rocket science": Climate scientist explains why hurricanes are getting stronger

From CNN's Elise Hammond

The world is getting hotter and hurricanes are getting stronger, according to climate scientists.

Hurricane Helene hit the Florida as a Category 4 storm on Thursday night, destroying homes, knocking out power and bringing deadly flash flooding.

“It’s not it’s not rocket science, it’s pretty basic physics that tells us that the warmer you make the oceans, the more moisture they evaporate into the atmosphere, the more energy there is to intensify these storms,” Michael Mann, a leading climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, told CNN on Friday.

Stronger storms means stronger winds, which leads to more life-threatening storm surge and catastrophic flooding. After it makes landfall, the storm is still dangerous, thanks to that increased amount of moisture that allows it to continue to dump rain, Mann said.

Reversing this trend of stronger, more extreme weather is “going to be tough,” Mann said, because it all has to do with how much humans have warmed the Earth.

“That warmth is sort of baked in for the near future, we’re not going to cool the planet down in the absence of substantial new technology to suck (planet warming) carbon out of the atmosphere,” he said.

But, Mann said there are things we can do to prevent it from getting worse, including stopping carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels and transition to renewable energy “as rapidly as possible.”