Al Jazeera: "Noah didn't have the overwhelming consensus of climate scientists that we have today"

Hurricane season reveals economic perils of ignoring climate predictions - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

The correlation between warming surface waters and tropical cyclone intensity has been scientifically verified. While it's unclear if climate change is causing an uptick in natural disasters, we cannot deny that the percentage of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has increased since the 1980s. In that same period, sea levels have risen and by some estimates, they have been since 1880. Human activities such as burning fossil fuels and clearing forests release excessive carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, and incontrovertible evidence shows that in the past 50 years, over 90 per cent of this warming has gone into our oceans.
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Humans have failed to prepare for climate crises since the time of Noah, but Noah didn't have the overwhelming consensus of climate scientists that we have today.