The 2022 hurricane season shows why climate change is so dangerous
NPRThe 2022 hurricane season shows why climate change is so dangerous Enlarge this image toggle caption Rebecca Blackwell/AP Rebecca Blackwell/AP In early September, a lot of people who live in hurricane-prone parts of the United States started noticing that it had been an eerily quiet summer. Sponsor Message But federal forecasters were adamant: the apparent 2022 lull meant little, they warned, because the number of storms tells you little about the severity of any given hurricane season. Enlarge this image toggle caption Alejandro Granadillo/AP Alejandro Granadillo/AP The 2022 hurricane season exemplifies some of the most dangerous effects of climate change on storms. In all, 2022 was a sobering reminder that climate change makes the most destructive storms more likely, and that even relatively quiet hurricane seasons can quickly turn deadly.