re: Did Global Warming Make Hurricane Ian Intensify Faster than Normal?

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Did Global Warming Make Hurricane Ian Intensify Faster than Normal?

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Well, you can make that argument, but there's more to hurricane intensifaction than just hot oceans. Steering currents, wind shear, Sahara Dust, fronts, competing cyclones in the same region, etc. all suppress the strengthening. It just so happens Ian, like Ida the year before, was in an ideal environment to become a monster storm.

Same thing with Camille back in 1969; it became one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history, long before SUVs were fouling the air.