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As Jamaica faces the most powerful hurricane in its history, former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres told Channel 4 News it was a stark example of how a warming world is now making storms more powerful – and more unfair.
Warming oceans, she said, were “turbo-charging” extreme weather. The storm that tore through Jamaica reached Category 5 because sea temperatures were three degrees higher than normal.
“Climate change doesn’t produce hurricanes , it makes them more and more powerful,” Figueres told Channel 4 News during an interview with Jackie Long.
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She called it a devastating injustice, especially since the developing nations that have contributed least to the crisis were suffering the most.
“They have to find 80% of the cost of rebuilding, recovering, a
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