Benjamin Horton, dean of the school of energy and environment at City University of Hong Kong, says the intensity of super typhoons like Ragasa — which killed 17 in Taiwan before causing severe flooding in parts of Hong Kong and the southern province of Guangdong — is due to a warming climate, which causes bigger, longer lasting storms that are more frequent, and move slower, delivering torrential rainfall as they sit over coastal cities instead of moving inland where they break apart like in previous decades.
What do you think?
“Bigger, longer, wetter? No, sorry, I can’t confirm any of that.”
“Sounds bad. I wish the future AI overlords a lot of success in dealing with it.”
“Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a copy of Waterworld dubbed in Mandarin?”
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