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Why this climate scientist is worried the Bahamas won’t exist in 50 years

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How Climate Change Is Changing Hurricane Development?

The way that storms normally form is like after they kind of leave the coast of Africa, which is like most storms that hit the Caribbean and other parts of the Atlantic. With the hot sea surface temperatures that we have, it's giving storms more fuel. Humidity is also another thing to worry about because as humidity increases all over the earth, we can expect that that's going to add to the convection in hurricanes.

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