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Heftier hurricanes, simmering summers, wilder wildfires? Studies point to human-caused climate change

Now here’s a climate change twist: the U.S. weather agency — forecasting lots of Atlantic hurricanes — finds reducing air pollution causes more hurricanes.

Thunderheads spawned by a tropical storm over western Florida sweep across St. Simons Sound in south Georgia
Thunderheads spawned by a tropical storm over western Florida sweep across St. Simons Sound in south Georgia (AN/R. Powers)

WASHINGTON (AN) — Now here’s a climate change twist: America's weather agency — which forecasted a seventh straight abnormally busy Atlantic hurricane season on Tuesday — finds that reducing air pollution results in more hurricanes.

Above-average hurricane activity is expected this year, which would make it the seventh consecutive above-average hurricane season, according to forecasters at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service.

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