Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
Hurricane Helene tears through the south-eastern United States as scientists say climate change rapidly intensifies hurricanes. The storm devastated large swaths of the south-eastern United States after making landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm. Officials say the death toll is likely to rise, as many are still missing.
Helene is expected to be one of the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history and was fuelled by abnormally warm water in the Gulf of Mexico, but most of the media coverage has failed to connect the devastation to the climate crisis. "The planet's overheating. It's irreversible. It's caused by the fossil fuel industry," says climate activist and climate scientist Peter Kalmus in Raleigh, North Carolina. "This will get worse as the planet continues to get hotter."
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Hurricane Helene tears through the south-eastern United States as scientists say climate change rapidly intensifies hurricanes. The storm devastated large swaths of the south-eastern United States after making landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm. Officials say the death toll is likely to rise, as many are still missing.
Helene is expected to be one of the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history and was fuelled by abnormally warm water in the Gulf of Mexico, but most of the media coverage has failed to connect the devastation to the climate crisis. "The planet's overheating. It's irreversible. It's caused by the fossil fuel industry," says climate activist and climate scientist Peter Kalmus in Raleigh, North Carolina. "This will get worse as the planet continues to get hotter."
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Carry on emitting today and hope at some future date huge carbon sucking technology will solve the problem. Yet we know carbon is killing today, and global emissions are still rising.
Oil is more valuable than our culture, our heritage, our bodies. More valuable than the beautiful web of life on earth, more valuable than home.
#juststopoil
#climatecrisis
#globalwarming
