Climate Change: Are We Witnesses to the Coming Apocalypse?
This summer Hurricane Ida pounded the American states of Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, Alabama and Pennsylvania to the tune of 1.4 billion dollars of damage, according to insurance company Allstate. 33 deaths were also caused by the massive storm. The total fiscal damage from the 2021 Atlantic Ocean hurricane season was estimated to be 69.13 billion dollars, the fourth costliest tropical season on record. There has been a total of seven hurricanes, four of which were category 3 or higher ( disasterphilanthropy.org). What does this all mean? For one thing, according to NOAA weather service, due to the increasing amounts and severity of these natural disasters the National Hurricane Center (NHC) have extending the tropical season from May 15 to November 1st. These deadly, destructive storms are beginning a month sooner and finishing 2 weeks later than in 1981 when the National Weather Service began naming these storms (weather.com). Hurricane Sandy in 2012 was the 5th costliest