{"650379":{"#nid":"650379","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How the climate crisis played a role in fueling Hurricane Ida","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESeveral factors linked to the climate crisis are helping to fuel more powerful, destructive storms like Hurricane Ida, scientists say.\u0026nbsp;The latest report from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\u0022\u003EIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\u003C\/a\u003E, the world\u0026rsquo;s leading authority on climate\u0026nbsp;science, found that storms with sustained higher wind speeds \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;in the Category 3-5 range \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;have likely increased in the past 40 years. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/about\/meet-susan-lozier\u0022\u003ESusan Lozier\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Dean and Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair in the College of Sciences, president of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.agu.org\u0022\u003EAmerican Geophysical Union\u003C\/a\u003E, and a physical oceanographer, says \u0026ldquo;there is more energy available, so intensification of these hurricanes is expected. And intensification brings more winds.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-09-01 20:22:46","changed_gmt":"2021-09-01 20:22:46","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Alt-PNT","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/climate-change\/news\/hurricane-ida-louisiana-storm-katrina-b1912069.html","dateline":{"date":"2021-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"180514","name":"Susan Lozier"},{"id":"171617","name":"American Geophysical Union"},{"id":"188777","name":"Hurricane Ida"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}